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Unique ID: WAW-8C59C7
Object type certainty: Certain
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Post Medieval (mid 17th to late 17th century) trade token. The token is in poor condition so the issuer is not visible.
Trade tokens were issued between 1648 and 1672 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 an insight to the trade of the time. In 1672 regal copper coinage was introduced and the trade tokens were then banned (Besly 1997, 20).
Besly, E. 1997 Loose Change: A Guide to Common Coins and Medals National Museum and Galleries of Wales
Class: Trade
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1648
Date to: Circa AD 1672
Quantity: 1
Weight: 0.66 g
Diameter: 14.47 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Class: English
Denomination: Token farthing
Obverse description: The obverse is not visible due to wear and corrosion.
Obverse inscription: Illegible due to wear and corrosion.
Reverse description: The reverse is not visible due to wear and corrosion.
Reverse inscription: [ ] // W / [ ]
4 Figure: SO7542
Four figure Latitude: 52.07579262
Four figure longitude: -2.3661827
1:25K map: SO7542
1:10K map: SO74SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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