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Unique ID: SUSS-D22693
Object type certainty: Certain
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Cast lead circular uni-faced token. The token has a raised design of a long equal armed cross with one pellet in each corner on one side, the other side is blank. It is 19.1 mm in diameter, 3.4 mm thick and weighs 9.4 grams. Lead tokens had a wide variety of uses and were made locally, they are therefore hard to date precisely.
While cross and pellet designs were traditionally thought to copy Medieval coinage and therefore be mostly Medieval in date, publication of moulds that combine Post Medieval designs (initials) with cross and pellet designs (Kerridge and de Ruiter 2009: 229) suggest they continued in use into the Post Medieval period and this example could date from 1250-1850 AD.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1250
Date to: Circa AD 1850
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 3.4 mm
Weight: 9.4 g
Diameter: 19.1 mm
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Primary material: Lead Alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
No numismatic data has been recorded for this coin yet.
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Kerridge, R. and de Ruiter, R. | 2009 | The tokens, metallic tickets, checks and passes of West Sussex, 1650-1950. | England | Privately published | 229 |