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TOKEN
Unique ID: LVPL-4DE2D5
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A complete copper alloy halfpenny trade token of post-medieval date of Robert Hunter of York: Williamson (1967, 1346) Yorkshire no. 403, dated 1670 (on token).
Obverse: ROB[ERT . HVNT]ER . OF surrounding HIS / HALFE / PENY.
Reverse: [YORKE . 1670]; The Armes of the Hunter family: a chevron between three bugle-horns
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.
Dimensions: 20.36mm in diameter, 1.1g.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1670
Date to: Circa AD 1670
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 1.1 g
Diameter: 20.36 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st March 2015 - Friday 20th March 2015
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Jetton / token data
Class: English
Denomination: Token halfpenny
Obverse description: HIS / HALFE / PENY
Obverse inscription: RO[BERT . HVNT]ER . OF
Reverse description: The Armes of the Hunter family: a chevron between three bugle-horns.
Reverse inscription: [YORKE . 1670]
Degree of wear: Extremely worn: poor
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Yorkshire (County)
District: Selby (District)
To be known as: Selby area
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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