Cloth Seal, Commonwealth Alnage, 1650 onwards

Cloth Commonwealth Alnage Seal 165?, Image & Found by Matrix45.
Found in Yorkshire, 30 x 15mm.

A complete four disc alnage seal. One side has an inscription - top line illegible ... (H?)/ FAX / K followed by a floret (possibly with one before the K as well) / 165? (last figure could be 2, 9 or 8). The other side shows two shields bearing the cross of Saint George and the Irish harp, the arms of England and Ireland.

A lead alnage seal of the Commonwealth period.
See No.9 Plate 4 in G EGAN - Brit. Numis. J. 61, 31, 1991 - britnumsoc.org. :-
"Simple descriptions of the designs on seals and on coins of that period [Commonwealth] in two cases are identical: in the first instances a shield has a doubly engrailed top, with the cross of St George (for England), within a palm and branch wreath, and in the second these same arms appear together with a second similar shield with a harp (for Ireland) and with II above. The first shield appears alone on pennies, and the pair on half-groats of the commonwealth. The II indicates two pence on the seals (this is the amount of cloth tax paid to the authorities) as well as on the coins. The dies were not quite identical (those for the stamps in pi. 4, 9 left are more closely comparable than those on the right), but the similarities are surely once again far more than coincidental."

See also UKDFD Ref. No. - 6813