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TOKEN
Unique ID: SF-EC5E83
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A lead groat sized Boy Bishop token of Rigold's Bury Series I D 2, c.1470-1539 AD (Rigold, 1978: p. 94).
Obverse: +SANCTVS:NICHOLAVS:ORA PRO N[]IS, Mitred bust inclined right, S reversed on crozier to left, knopped N to right, all within an inner circle.
Reverse: :A[] EX/GEN TIS/A[]LO/:RVM[] // MILES/REGE/S ANG/LORVM, Long cross dividing inner and outer legends, three pellets in each angle of the cross, all within an inner circle.
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
Weight: 5.07 g
Diameter: 26.42 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st January 2014
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Numismatic data
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Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: St. Edmundsbury (District)
To be known as: West Stow
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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