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Box with Coin Scale & 11 weights
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Box with Coin Scale & 11 weights

Dateca. 1750
OriginEngland
MediumScale: Iron, brass & string; Weights: cast & struck brass; Box: Oak with iron & brass hardware, paper label nd baize lining.
DimensionsBox: 5 3/4" x 2 5/8" x 1 1/8" Balance: beam - 4 7/8", pans approx. 2" Weights: from 1 1/16" down to 3/4"
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number2002-123,A-C
DescriptionBOX (2002-123,A) - Lid with incised and stamped linear and floral decorations, iron wire hinges with brass hasp. Engraved label on inside of lid depicting a well dressed hand holding a scale within a floral rococo border to left, and a coin weight & value table.

SCALE (2002-123,B) - Iron balance with some decorative filing, 3 green suspension strings for sheet brass pans.

WEIGHTS (2002-123,C1-11) - C1 through C3 struck in imitation of the coins they are intended to balance against (with portraits of monarchs), C4 through C7 struck with their weight (C5 & C7 cast, C6 struck) and C8 through C11 stamped with numerals (19th-20th century).
InscribedWEIGHTS; 2B- Obv. IOHANNES.V.PORT.ET.ALG.REX.1747
Rev. THREE POUND TWELVE
2C- Obv. GEORGIUS.II.DEI.GRATIA
Rev. M.B.F.ET.H.REX.FD.B.ET.L.D.SR.I.A.E.1748
A GUINEA (within crowned floral shield)
2D- Obv. IOANNES.V.PORT.REX
Rev. NINE SHILLINGS (within floral shield)
2E- Obv. EIGHTEEN SHILLINGS (within floral shield)
Rev. same
2F- Obv. S over 36
Rev. S over 36
2G- uniface, "5 Dwt. 8gr." with lion passant counterstamp above
2H- Obv. D over XII
Rev. same
2I- uniface "46"
2J- uniface "2"
2K- uniface "2"
2l - blank