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Unique ID: OXON-95960A
Object type certainty: Certain
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Post Medieval (mid 17th to late 17th century) trade token issued by Samuell Christopher at Horselydown. Dickinson 249.
Trade tokens were issued between 1648 and 1672 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 an insight to the trade of the time. In 1672 regal copper coinage was introduced and the trade tokens were then banned (Besly 1997, 20).
Besly, E. 1997 Loose Change: A Guide to Common Coins and Medals National Museum and Galleries of Wales
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1648
Date to: Circa AD 1672
Quantity: 1
Weight: 1.13 g
Diameter: 20.07 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st January 2021 - Tuesday 8th February 2022
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Other reference: Object Entry Form: 2625
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Fragment
Denomination: Token halfpenny
Obverse description: Beaded inner circle, shield containing Grocer's Arms
Obverse inscription: [SA]M[VELL].CHRIST[OPHER]
Reverse description: Beaded inner circle, [HIS HALFE PENY] in three lines with SC/.I below
Reverse inscription: [AT.HORSL]Y.DOWNE 1667
Degree of wear: Extremely worn: poor
4 Figure: SU7398
Four figure Latitude: 51.67603419
Four figure longitude: -0.94566344
1:25K map: SU7398
1:10K map: SU79NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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