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TOKEN
Unique ID: KENT-757816
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A worn, abraded and warped probable post-Medieval cast lead or lead-alloy circular biface token (c. 1500-c. 1850).
Description: The token is relatiely small with a stylised outline of a human head on one side and the ligated letters 'HC' on the other.
Measurements: 13.21mm in diameter, 1.71mm thick and 1.22g in weight.
Discussion: Lead tokens had a wide variety of potential uses such as tallies, gaming pieces, tickets, weights, etc. and are believed to have been locally produced; they are therefore difficult to date precisely. The bus ton this example seems likely to be medieval or post-medieval in date
The Powell classification system, in which there are over 30 categories, attempts to classify these leaden tokens according to the designs featured on each face, but it does not assign any chronology. in this classifcation it would be 10/2 (10 being busts or head and 2 for initials)
Class: Powell 10/2
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 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1850
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 1.71 mm
Weight: 1.22 g
Diameter: 13.21 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead Alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Numismatic data
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Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Basingstoke and Deane (District)
Parish or ward: Upton Grey (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU7049
Four figure Latitude: 51.23589838
Four figure longitude: -0.99872505
1:25K map: SU7049
1:10K map: SU74NW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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