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Out today searching new land again today, this time with a little success. Found a couple of lead weights maybe medieval and a hammered penny of I think Edward 1 Canterbury mint (1279-1307).

HH Robert.

 

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[BuckleBoy]

bet that made your day! do the three dots indicate a penny?

No three pellets in each quarter were used in pennies, half pennies, farthings, groats and half groats. What the three pellets signify I dont know.

father, son and holy ghost?

Could be! Lots of that symbolism going on. Im contemporaneous music of that era, time signatures (prolation markings) were either "imperfect" (divided into groupings of twos) or "perfect" (divided into groupings of threes)--and then those groupings could be subdivided even farther into twos or threes. (We have only subgroupings of twos in Western music now...Whole note equals two half notes....half note equals two quarter notes...etc.) But either way, the reason such a division was called "perfect" was the Trinity.

Music in that Age related more to Christianity than coins did, most likely--but the dialogue between Church and State was often very strong in those days too.


It'd be neat to know what the dots mean.


Best Wishes,



Buckleboy

 

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Congrats , & WTG