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Unique ID: SOM-C99621
Object type certainty: Certain
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An incomplete post-medieval copper-alloy trader's token farthing issued by Ambrose Seward in Yeovil, AD 1648-1672; Williamson (1891, 995), Somerset 340.
This token has suffered a loss to its circumference.
Notes:
For a clearer example held by the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, see - http://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/153715
An Ambrose Seward is documented as a grocer as late as 1728 (DD/HN 2/5/8, 11, 15; 2/6/2) (Mary Siraut, VCH Somerset, pers. comm. 27th August 2013).
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 1648
Date to: Exactly AD 1672
Quantity: 1
Length: 13.3 mm
Width: 10.6 mm
Thickness: 0.6 mm
Weight: 0.28 g
Diameter: 13.3 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 15th June 2013
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Other reference: SCC receipt 22343
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete
Denomination: Token farthing
Obverse description: A cross patty
Obverse inscription: [AMBROSE SEW]ARD
Reverse description: Initials: . S . // A . A
Reverse inscription: [YEOV]ELL I[N SOMERSET]
Die axis measurement: 9 o'clock
Degree of wear: Extremely worn: poor
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Boyne, W. | 1889 | Trade Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century in England, Wales and Ireland | London | Rare Books Club | 995 | 340 |