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Unique ID: BUC-E91DE3
Object type certainty: Certain
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A 17th-century copper-alloy trade token farthing issued by grocer William Warre of Baldock, Hertfordshire, AD 1648-1672 (Williamson (Hertfordshire) 16)
Class: trade
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 1648
Date to: Exactly AD 1672
Quantity: 1
Weight: 0.78 g
Diameter: 15.1 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 8th July 2012
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Token farthing
Obverse description: The Grocers' arms
Obverse inscription: WILL WA[RRE] GROCER
Reverse description: Initials: . W . // W . A
Reverse inscription: * IN . BOWLDOAKE
Degree of wear: Very worn: fair
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Boyne, W. | 1889 | Trade Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century in England, Wales and Ireland | London | Rare Books Club | 297 | 16 |