Coins, Historical Medals and Antiquities

Early 17th century, gold posy ring, 2.29g, 2 cm diameter; rectangular in cross-section and decorated on the outside with a central panel of a rectangular link chain design ending in a lozenge followed by scroll tendrils and then by banded links and another lozenge with scroll tendrils; on the inside in Roman square capitals is the inscription +save me o god. About very fine with slight wear to the outside £600-£800

Provenance: Found at Thundridge (Hertfordshire), before 1997 and therefore not recorded on the PAS