Double Patard found on land

Nick Welsh, who came on our Pits walk at the invitation of Nat Bocking, found this double Patard.

Here’s how Nat describes it: It’s a fragment of a double patard of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, Count of Flanders (1467 – 1477). It was minted in 1467 – 1474.  Silver double patards of the dukes of Burgundy, from their territories of Brabant and Flanders, were made legally current in England as equal to groats (i.e. fourpence) in a convention of 1469 between Edward IV and Charles the Bold. They remained in currency until the 1520s at least. In contemporary records they are known as “double placks” or “Carolus placks”. It is likely this coin was cut into four so that each piece was worth one pence. The struggle to keep change in trade was just the same back then.