Rights Holder: Suffolk County Council
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Unique ID: SF-9D5044
Object type certainty: Certain
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A very worn and bent lead groat sized Boy Bishop token, c.1470-1539 AD.
Obverse: []BIS[], A mitred bust? within an inner circle.
Reverse: Illegible, Long cross dividing inner and outer legends, three pellets in each angle of the cross, all within an inner circle.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1470
Date to: Circa AD 1539
Quantity: 1
Weight: 2.41 g
Diameter: 24.35 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 30th March 2014
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Other reference: 1205
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
No numismatic data has been recorded for this coin yet.
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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