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Unique ID: SOM-099464
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A post-medieval copper-alloy 17th-century trade token farthing issued by Edmond Anstie at South Petherton in Somerset, Williamson Somerset 217, dating to 1668 (on token). Ref: Williamson (1891, 986).
Class: Williamson Somerset 217
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 1668
Date to: Exactly AD 1668
Quantity: 1
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Other reference: SCC receipt 17614
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Token farthing
Obverse description: Crescent moon
Obverse inscription: ED[MON]D ANSTIE 166[8]
Reverse description: Initials: A over E A, roses flanking A and below E A
Reverse inscription: OF . SOUVTH . PETHERTON
Die axis measurement: 12 o'clock
Degree of wear: Worn: fine
4 Figure: ST4016
Four figure Latitude: 50.94030548
Four figure longitude: -2.85532944
1:25K map: ST4016
1:10K map: ST41NW
Grid reference source: Centred on village (which isn't a parish)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1000 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Boyne, W. and Williamson, G.C. | 1889 | Trade Tokens issued in the Seventeenth Century in England, Wales, and Ireland | London |