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Repost of coin weight? and Ram's head.
i am not sure what metal the Ram's head is made of it appears to be either copper/alloy/Bronzy but the sttange thing is there is no surface deterioation of the metal
 

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Its a circa 16-17th C Antwerp hand coin weight, The initials MM will narrow it down further.

The rams head??
 

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Rams head not very old i shall say victorian


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I am pleased with that, I wonder what a foreign coin weight is doing in fields here? Briggser
 

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I am pleased with that, I wonder what a foreign coin weight is doing in fields here? Briggser

Pretty common, as we traded with all types of foriegn gold coins & the merchants needed a way of checking them.
 

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