Rights Holder: Birmingham Museums Trust
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Unique ID: WMID-BE37E5
Object type certainty: Certain
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A group of 25 lead tokens recovered from two fields on the same farm. The tokens are probably medieval to post-medieval in date. They range from 15.8 mm in diameter to 22.26 mm in diameter. Some are incomplete and some are irregular in shape. Two are bent in half and a small number are convex on the obverse. All appear to have uniface decoration. They may perhaps have been used as a localised form of small change by farm workers, or perhaps as gaming or gambling tokens. Total weight 110.1 grams.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Quantity: 25
Weight: 110.1 g
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st January 2011 - Tuesday 31st May 2011
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Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
No numismatic data has been recorded for this coin yet.
4 Figure: SJ9113
Four figure Latitude: 52.714582
Four figure longitude: -2.134664
1:25K map: SJ9113
1:10K map: SJ91SW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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