Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note on brown-paper envelope containing object reads: 'Nuremberg token / early 16th century / Framlingham Castle'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle

Description (Physical description)
Nuremberg token. Inscriptions repeated. Lombardic lettering; LEOB; ELOB.

Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Inscription)
Legends are worn and undecipherable, perhaps fictitious, but the letters 'B.LEOBE' and 'B.ELOB' can perhaps be seen.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle

Context (Field collection)
Excavated by Group Captain G.M. Knocker and C.F. Leech, March to April 1954.
Event Date 1954
Author: maa

Context (References)
Knocker, G. M. (1956). ‘Excavations at Framlingham Castle, 1954’. Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, 27(2), pp. 65-88.
Event Date 1956
Author: Sophie Wardle

Description (Physical description)
Pierced.
Event Date 10/8/2001
Author: Sophie Wardle

Description (Physical description)
Copper-alloy Nuremberg jetton of the 'rose and orb' type; with circular perforation. Obverse depicts crowns and fleurs-de-lis around a central rose. Reverse shows an imperial orb surmounted by a cross pattée contained within a tressure of three arches and three angles. Lombardic lettering around the border of each face. Legends are worn and undecipherable, perhaps fictitious, but the letters 'B.LEOBE' and 'B.ELOB' can perhaps be seen. No discernible maker's name.
Event Date 28/11/2023
Author: Sophie Wardle