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TOKEN
Unique ID: SWYOR-F8CA27
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A complete copper alloy Post-Medieval trade token dating from 1666.
Obverse: IOHN . DIXON (Legend); HIS / HALF / PENY (across the field)
Reverse: OF . WAKEFEILD .1666 (Legend); I .D (in the field)
This token is listed in Boyne, William (1858). Tokens Issued in the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries in Yorkshire. as number 316. Another token of John Dixon features hops, so he may have been a brewer.
Inscription:
IOHN DIXON OF WAKEFEILD 1666 / HIS HALF PENY
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1666
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 0.86 mm
Weight: 1.01 g
Diameter: 18.11 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 5th February 2011 - Thursday 12th May 2011
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: PAS form number 1511
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Numismatic data
No numismatic data has been recorded for this coin yet.
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Doncaster (Metropolitan District)
District: Doncaster (Metropolitan District)
Parish or ward: Tickhill (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK5894
Four figure Latitude: 53.439593
Four figure longitude: -1.128341
1:25K map: SK5894
1:10K map: SK59SE
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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