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TOKEN
Unique ID: SF-300958
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A worn copper-alloy Ipswich farthing traders' token dated to 1670 AD. As Williamson, 1967: pp. 1084, no. 158.
Obverse: AN/IPSWICH/FARTHING/1670 in four lines
Reverse: Arms of Ipswich (per pale, on the dexter side, a lion rampant; on the sinister, three hulls of ships)
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: 3.18 g
Diameter: 21.67 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st August 2015
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
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: Mid Suffolk (District)
To be known as: Barking
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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