Rights Holder: Hampshire Cultural Trust
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Unique ID: HAMP-EDB343
Object type certainty: Certain
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A post-medieval 17th century farthing trade token issued by Francis Lucas of Portsmouth, dated 1666 to the reverse.
Reference: Williamson Hampshire 152.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1666
Date to: Circa AD 1666
Quantity: 1
Weight: 1.4 g
Diameter: 16.5 mm
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Other reference: Hampshire Cultural Trust Object Entry Form WINCM 476
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Complete
Class: Other
Group: Other
Type: Other
Denomination: Token farthing
Obverse description: A ship.
Obverse inscription: FRANCIS . LVCAS . O[F] (the F and part of the O obscured by raised area of copper alloy)
Reverse description: F (rosette) L
Reverse inscription: (rosette) PORTCHMOVTH . 1666
Die axis measurement: 6 o'clock
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Williamson, G.C. | 1967 | Trade Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century | London | Seaby Ltd | Hampshire 152 |