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Post Medieval trade token of Ric Goddard or Bridge Street, Evesham. Dickenson No. 55/6.
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 MedalsNational Museum and Galleries of Wales
Dickenson, M. 2004 Seventeenth Century Tokens of the British Isles and Their ValuesLondon: Spink
Williamson, G.C. 1889 Trade Tokens Issued in the 17th Century Seaby Volume I-III
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 1648
Date to: Exactly AD 1672
Quantity: 1
Weight: 0.89 g
Diameter: 15.33 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st January 2016 - Monday 6th June 2016
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Token halfpenny
Obverse description: G / RM
Obverse inscription: RIC GODDARD IN BRIDG
Reverse description: G / RM
Reverse inscription: [ ] EVESHAM
Die axis measurement: 6 o'clock
Degree of wear: Worn: fine
4 Figure: SP1051
Four figure Latitude: 52.15718834
Four figure longitude: -1.8552428
1:25K map: SP1051
1:10K map: SP15SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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