Cloth Seal, Commonwealth Alnage, 1649 onward, Image & Found by James Crombie.
Found in England, 30 x 14mm.
A four disc alnage seal showing the commonwealth shields of England and Ireland on one side and an inscription in three lines across the other - NOB / * L * / CLOT[H].
A Commonwealth alnage seal.
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."
