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TOKEN
Unique ID: SF-4D1DC5
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A very worn and incomplete lead groats sized Boy Bishop token, probably of Rigold's (1978: pp. 93-94) Series I, possibly I D, c.1470-1539 AD. Half of the token is missing due to old breaks and both faces are extremely worn due to post-depositional damage.
Obverse: :SA[]:PRO:nOBIS, Uncertain obverse type within an inner circle.
Reverse: Illegible legend, Long cross dividing inner and outer legends, pellets in the internal angle of the cross?
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1470
Date to: Circa AD 1539
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 25.86 mm
Width: 15.01 mm
Weight: 4.03 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st February 2013
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Numismatic data
No numismatic data has been recorded for this coin yet.
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Forest Heath (District)
To be known as: Freckenham
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
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