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TOKEN
Unique ID: YORYM-CD2F88
Object type certainty: Certain
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A complete copper alloy halfpenny trade token of post-medieval date. The token was issued by Barthol Anderson, master of a merchant vessel and mariner in Bridlington.
Obverse: BARTHOL ANDERSON around shield with three five-pointed stars around chevron.
Reverse: IN BRIDLINGTON KEY around HIS//HALF//PENY.
The token is 18mm in diameter and weighs 0.9g.
A similar example is illustrated in Thompson and Dickinson, pl.18, no.5824.
Trade tokens were issued between 1648 and 1673 at a time when there was little low denomination coinage being issued by the crown. As a result traders and business proprietors began issuing tokens as an alternate coinage with equivalent denominations of a farthing, half penny or penny. Such trade tokens rarely travel far from their place of issue and provide a wonderful insight to the trade of the time.
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Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1648
Date to: Circa AD 1673
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 0.9 g
Diameter: 18 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
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Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
District: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Wold Newton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TA0373
Four figure Latitude: 54.14251816
Four figure longitude: -0.42475932
1:25K map: TA0373
1:10K map: TA07SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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