Rights Holder: Somerset County Council
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Unique ID: SOM-B7649A
Object type certainty: Certain
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Post-Medieval copper alloy trade token farthing issued by Samuel Bindon in Taunton, dating to AD 1648-1672; Williamson (1891: 987), Somerset 236.
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: 1.07 g
Diameter: 15.5 mm
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Other reference: SCC receipt 19491
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Token farthing
Obverse description: A pair of scales
Obverse inscription: SAMVE . BINDEN . IN
Reverse description: B flanked by lozenges over S S with flower between
Reverse inscription: TAVNTON . SOMMERSET
Die axis measurement: 6 o'clock
Degree of wear: Worn: fine
Grid reference source: From finder
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 |