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TOKEN
Unique ID: YORYM-D7646A
Object type certainty: Certain
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A complete copper-alloy halfpenny trade token of Post-Medieval date, AD 1688. The token was issued by Timothy Browne, cordwainer (shoe maker) in Beverley.
Obverse: TIMOTHEY BROWNE around head of a goat left (part of the cordwainer arms).
Reverse: OF BEVERLEY around HIS//HALF//PENY.
The token is 18.2mm in diameter and weighs 1.1g.
A similar example is illustrated in Thompson and Dickinson, pl.17, no.5800.
Trade tokens were issued between 1648 and 1673 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 a wonderful insight to the trade of the time.
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 1688
Date to: Circa AD 1688
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 1.1 g
Diameter: 18.2 mm
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: YMT : E05943
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Jetton / token data
Denomination: Token halfpenny
Obverse description: Head of a goat left (part of the cordwainer arms)
Obverse inscription: TIMOTHEY BROWNE
Reverse description: Three lines of text
Reverse inscription: OF BEVERLEY around HIS//HALF//PENY
Die axis measurement: 3 o'clock
Degree of wear: Worn: fine
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
District: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Hutton Cranswick (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TA0353
Four figure Latitude: 53.96283441
Four figure longitude: -0.43154204
1:25K map: TA0353
1:10K map: TA05SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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