Coinery Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Just a quick question. Did the medieval mint manufacture its own 'official' coin weights? Quote
Colin G. Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 A lot of trade weights bear a royal mark, so I would have assumed the same for coin weights that there would have been some form of official weight set Quote
Rob Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 They were made by the same people who engraved the dies and made the punches. So you see Charles I weights signed by Briot for example. Quote
Coinery Posted March 31, 2015 Author Posted March 31, 2015 OK, that would explain the one I've just seen punched with a cosher bust of Elizabeth!Thanks, chaps! Quote
Rob Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 You get something similar with the pyx trial standard plates. The Mint has pieces of gold which were used as the relevant standard for the period marked on the plate. For some it carries the description of the fineness in words, but for others it carries an impression of the coin against which it was tried - angel, crown sovereign etc. This was covered in a useful little book called Ancient trial Plates of the Royal Mint by J H Watson (1962) Quote
Coinery Posted March 31, 2015 Author Posted March 31, 2015 Thanks, Rob, interesting and intriguing!I might come back to this thread in a bit! Quote
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