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TOKEN
Unique ID: WMID-DE14D7
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A complete cast lead token, dating to the 16th/ 17th century AD (diameter: 27.3mm; thickness: 7mm; weight: 18.46g). This domed and irrgeular token is decorated on one side only with ten raised lines radiatting out from a slightly off-centre pellet. Other pellets appear in between the radiatting lines. There is a small area of raised border around the outside edge. The back of the token is slightly indented and undecorated. the token is in a worn but fair condition.
Similar examples are illustrated in Mitchiner's 'English Tokens c. 1425 to 1672', plates 17 & 18 which date to the 17th century AD.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1500
Date to: AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight: 18.46 g
Diameter: 27.3 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 11th July 2005
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Jetton / token data
Denomination: Uncertain
Obverse description: Ten lines radiatting froma central pellet.
Obverse inscription: None.
Reverse description: No decoration or detail.
Reverse inscription: None.
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Warwickshire (County)
District: Warwick (District)
To be known as: Bushwood
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mitchiner, M. and Skinner, A. | 1984 | English tokens: c.1425 to 1672 | London | British Numismatic Journal | plates 17 & 18 |
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