George I 1722 Double Moidore (27/-) Coin Weight

Offered is a very unusual coin weight, being rated at 27/-, the English equivalent of a Portuguese Double Moidore gold coin (the Irish rate was 30/-). We take the lower numerals to signify the date of manufacture (perhaps there was fear of an eventual re-valuation of the denomination), dating this piece to 1722 - in line with the period in which the Moidore was favoured in Ireland / the west of Britain (as outlined in William Shaw's Select Tracts and Documents Illustrative of English Monetary History (1896). A very unusual piece.