Cloth Seal, Alnage, Lion, Probably George I, Image by StuE, Found by Doug Turner.
Found in Somerset, 13 x 15, 1.2g.
One disc probably from a four disc alnage seal showing lion couchant on a ground with numerals 1 1/2 to sides of the head all in circular border of radiating dashes.
See No.189, Fig.28, Geoff Egan, 'Lead cloth seals and related items in the B.M. (B.M.occ.papers 93)' "This stamp is known on seals with the head of George I."
One and a half pence alnage tax had been paid on the cloth this was attached to.
