Rights Holder: Buckinghamshire County Museum
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Unique ID: BUC-558703
Object type certainty: Certain
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A very worn and abraded 17th-century trade token farthing issued by mercer Joseph Freer of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, dated 1652 on token (Williamson Buckinghamshire 14)
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 1652
Quantity: 1
Weight: 0.36 g
Diameter: 14.57 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 27th June 2013
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Token farthing
Obverse description: The Mercers' arms
Obverse inscription: IO[SEPH] F[REE]R MARC[ER]
Reverse description: Initials: F//I M
Reverse inscription: IN A[LESBVRY] 1[6]5[2]
Degree of wear: Extremely worn: poor
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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