Portugal, for a gold one Cruzado coinweight Netherlands coin weight 1612 for a Portuguese gold Cruzado - Guilliam de Neve - Low Countries muntgewicht - Portugal Crusado wei VF

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Netherlands, coin weight for a Portuguese gold Cruzado, dated 1612, made by Guilliam de Neve.

Obverse: one face shows a crowned shield, the design that recalls the Portuguese gold cruzado this weight was made to check.

Reverse: the other face carries the maker mark with the initials and the year 1612.

A coin weight is a small metal weight that a merchant or money changer used to check a gold coin. Gold coins like the Portuguese cruzado passed from hand to hand across Europe, so people needed a quick way to see if a coin still held its full gold. They laid the coin on a small balance and set this weight on the other side. If the coin was too light it had been clipped or worn and was worth less. Guilliam de Neve made weights, balances and small boxes in the Low Countries in the first half of the seventeenth century. The Portuguese cruzado was a gold coin that carried a cross, struck in Lisbon in the sixteenth century, and it was trusted far beyond Portugal because of its steady gold content. A weight like this shows how closely people watched their gold in the age of trade over long distances.

A small everyday tool from the world of the money changer, still clear and readable after four centuries.

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