Cloth Seal, Alnage, Lion Couchant, Image & Found by Jodie Leigh.
Found on the River Thames Foreshore, Surrey Quays, 15mm.
Missing // crowned lion couchant, 1 above back // distorted head of monarch? // missing
The inner-discs from a four disc alnage seal. The 1 indicates a 1 penny (d.) alnage charge for the cloth subsidy.
For a similar seal 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."
