Copper alloy jetton, with Rose/ orb, minted Nuremberg, AD 1500-1550 from context 6147, Evans Halshaw site, Hyde Street, Winchester (WINCM:AY 35).

Jetton

Tudor, between 1500 and 1550

Found by Wessex Archaeology at the Evans Halshaw site, Hyde Street, Winchester, Hampshire in the early 2000s

Like other jettons found at Hyde, this copper alloy disc looks like a coin, but was used for counting on a board. Imported from Nuremberg, the rose and orb decoration would have been instantly recognisable to the early 16th century user of the jetton, and served as an advertisement for the German city and its traders. The jetton is more likely to have been used by the lay community living in the northern suburb at Hyde than by the monks of Hyde Abbey.