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TOKEN
Unique ID: YORYM-C90803
Object type certainty: Certain
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A complete copper alloy halfpenny trade token of post-medieval date. The token was issued by Thomas Welch of Congleton, Cheshire in 1666.
Obverse: THOMAS WELCH 1666 around the Feltmakers coat of arms.
Reverse: IN CONGLETON around HIS//HALF//PENY.
The token is 18.9mm in diameter and weighs 1.1g.
Trade tokens were issued between 1648 and 1673 at a time when there was little low denomination coinage being issued by the crown. As a result traders and business proprietors began issuing tokens as an alternate coinage with equivalent denominations of a farthing, half penny or penny. Such trade tokens rarely travel far from their place of issue and provide a wonderful insight to the trade of the time. The arms of the Incorporated Trade Companies or Guilds of the City of London were also frequently depicted on trade tokens of this time of which this example is one.
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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
Weight: 1.1 g
Diameter: 18.9 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Jetton / token data
Class: Other
Group: Other
Type: Other
Denomination: Token halfpenny
Obverse description: Feltmakers coat of arms.
Obverse inscription: THOMAS WELCH 1666
Reverse description: HIS//HALF//PENY
Reverse inscription: IN CONGLETON
Die axis measurement: 12 o'clock
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
District: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: South Cave (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE9230
Four figure Latitude: 53.75824614
Four figure longitude: -0.60603378
1:25K map: SE9230
1:10K map: SE93SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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