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TOKEN
Unique ID: PUBLIC-8F4781
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A complete Cast lead circular unifaced token. The obverse of the token has a raised capital letter I with a central cross bar in the centre. The reverse is blank and there is part of a casting sprue to one side . It is 24.89mm in diameter, 5.3mm thick and weighs 16.7 grams. Lead tokens had a wide variety of uses and were made locally, they are therefore hard to date precisely but those with initials are thought to be Post Medieval (1500-1850 AD).
Class: Powell Type 2
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1850
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 5.3 mm
Weight: 16.7 g
Diameter: 24.89 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Numismatic data
No numismatic data has been recorded for this coin yet.
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Sussex (County)
District: Rother (District)
To be known as: Udimore
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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1 comment
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Laura Burnett wrote @ 15:58:10 on the 4th June 2010.
Just checking it is not an I with a central cross bar?
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