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TOKEN

Unique ID: SOMDOR1636

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published

17th century town token

Notes:

PAL1636

Class: farthing

Chronology

Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1669

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st January 2002

Personal details

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered

Jetton / token data

Denomination: Farthing (Copper alloy)
Obverse inscription: A GL[OVCES]TER FARTHING – around CG 1669
Reverse inscription: THE ARM[ES OF GLOVCESTER] around coat of arms

Spatial metadata

Region: South West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: Taunton Deane (District)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: ST2125
Four figure Latitude: 51.018926
Four figure longitude: -3.127659
1:25K map: ST2125
1:10K map: ST22NW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Character undetermined

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Boyne, W.	1889	Trade Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century in England, Wales and Ireland	London	Rare Books Club		no81
Boyne, W.	1889	Trade Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century in England, Wales and Ireland	London	Rare Books Club		no81

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Recording Institution: SOMDOR
Created: 21 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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