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TOKEN
Unique ID: OXON-86C836
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A complete copper alloy halfpenny trade token of post-medeival date. The trade token was issued by Edmond Manforth Junior of Holborn, London between AD 1648-1672. The British Museum holds an example of this token (museum number T.2925). Wiliamson (1889) no.1434.
Class: Trade token
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 1648
Date to: Circa AD 1672
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 0.75 mm
Weight: 1.3 g
Diameter: 20.4 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 3rd March 2019
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: OXPAS2019.314
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Jetton / token data
Class: English
Group: Not further defined
Type: Unknown
Denomination: Token farthing
Obverse description: An armed man holding a spear.
Obverse inscription: [ EDMOND . MAN]FORTH . [IVNIOR]
Reverse inscription: [NEXT . STAPLE] . INN . IN . HOLBORNE / HlS HALFE PENNY.
Degree of wear: Slightly worn: very fine
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
District: Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Remenham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU7884
Four figure Latitude: 51.54950937
Four figure longitude: -0.87647835
1:25K map: SU7884
1:10K map: SU78SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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