Just to clarify a bit on what was said above.
"Sequin" was, originally, the French name for the Venetian gold coin known in Italian as the "zecchino", also known as a "ducat"; these are the coins Shylock craved in Shakespeare's
The Merchant of Venice. In the Near East and Africa, these coins were frequently holed and used as personal decorations, a practice which eventually led to the word "sequin", in English, referring to any holed, glittery ornament sewn onto a garment.
The original mediaeval-era coins looked like
this. As you can see, the design on the imitation is rather crude, but it does retain the overall form and pattern. On the obverse is Christ standing in a lozenge-shaped field of stars; on the reverse, the Doge (ruler of Venice) kneels before Saint Mark, Venice's patron saint. On the imitation, Mr. Cooke apparently thought putting Jesus on his imitations would be sacrilegious, so the figure of Christ has been replaced with... torches? Cornucopiae? Plants of some kind? I'm not entirely sure.
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