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[edit]| Gold milled touchpiece medal of Charles II | |||
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Kent County Council, Walter (Jo) Ahmet, 2017-03-14 13:19:55 |
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Gold milled touchpiece medal of Charles II |
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| Description |
English: A fine milled gold touch piece / medal from the reign of Charles II (r.1660-1685AD).
Description: Obverse: Ship going left. Legend: 'CAR.II.D.G.M.B.FR.ET.HI.REX'. Reverse: St. George slaying the dragon. Reverse Legend: 'SOLI.DEO.GLORIA.' The touch piece is pierced just off 12 o'clock of the obverse and detail remains sharp Measurements: 21.4mm wide, 0.3mm thick and 3.35g in weight. Discussion: This is a touch piece, a gold medal purpose-made for use in the ceremony of Touching for the King's Evil, the ritual though which English monarchs exercised their thaumaturgic gift of healing the disease scrofula. In the 16th century the habit evolved of hanging a gold angel coin around the neck of the person touched by the king or queen and this became a firm part of the ceremony. After the Stuart Restoration no new angel coins were made and instead gold touch pieces with elements of the angel design replaced them. They are almost invariably pierced, as this was part of their purpose. The gold used to make these medals was 22 carat fineness. As a gold medal with no monetary function, a touch-piece would fall within the purview of the Treasure Act and at least one has passed through the system in this way already; eg. YORYM-B32610 (2015 T176). |
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| Depicted place | (County of findspot) West Sussex | ||
| Date | between 1660 and 1685 | ||
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FindID: 787761 Old ref: KENT-05E6BE Filename: KENT05E6BEa.jpg |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/606547 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/606547/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/787761 |
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