Elizabethan era equal-armed coin balance
- Made:
- England
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Elizabethan steel equal-armed coin balance, 6" beam, ring end pivots and knife-edge fulcrum, with 1 circular and 1 triangular brass scale pans (the latter dated 1591), in tooled pear-wood case, with 12 (various) coin weights mostly James I (1603-25) and set of grain weights stamped Charles I (1625-49)
Details
- Category:
- Weighing & Measuring
- Object Number:
- 1935-560
- type:
- money scales and coin beamscale
- credit:
- Evan-Thomas, O.