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TOKEN
Unique ID: ESS-C4AFD6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1650
Date to: AD 1900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 3.19 g
Diameter: 17.42 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 20th July 2009
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: OEF 5773
Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead Alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Jetton / token data
Denomination: Uncertain
Obverse inscription: possibly: * L C C T S N
Reverse inscription: possibly: * L C C T S N
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Thurrock (Unitary Authority)
District: Thurrock (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Stanford-le-Hope West (Unitary Authority Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ6980
Four figure Latitude: 51.493685
Four figure longitude: 0.433076
1:25K map: TQ6980
1:10K map: TQ68SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
No references cited so far.
Similar objects
Find number: HAMP-BE3E56
Object type: TOKEN
Broadperiod: POST MEDIEVAL
Post-Medieval lead token.
Workflow: Awaiting validation
Timeline of associated dates
2 comments
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Paul Cannon wrote @ 00:04:56 on the 30th January 2012.
I believe this is not a lead token but is one half of a lead Kosher sealing. The letters are Hebrew and read 'Kosher'. This type of seal has two halves joined with a lead strip. For complete examples see www.bagseals.org ref: 749 but the site has others as well. The British Museum also has images of complete examples eg 1987.0607.5. These seals were attached to meat that had been ritually killed and prepared according to the Jewish customs.
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Paul Cannon wrote @ 00:05:48 on the 30th January 2012.
I believe this is not a lead token but is one half of a lead Kosher sealing. The letters are Hebrew and read 'Kosher'. This type of seal has two halves joined with a lead strip. For complete examples see www.bagseals.org ref: 749 but the site has others as well. The British Museum also has images of complete examples eg 1987.0607.5. These seals were attached to meat that had been ritually killed and prepared according to the Jewish customs.
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