Rights Holder: The Portable Antiquities Scheme
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Unique ID: SOM-5A8C53
Object type certainty: Certain
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A post-medieval copper-alloy 17th century trade token farthing issued by John Grenway at Crewkerne in Somerset, Williamson Somerset 109 dating to 1648 to 1672. Ref: Williamson (1891:978).
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 1648
Date to: Exactly AD 1672
Quantity: 1
Weight: 0.89 g
Diameter: 17.3 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 4th December 2018 - Monday 4th March 2019
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Other reference: SCC Receipt 018336
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Token farthing
Obverse description: Arms: ermine on a canton a crescent.
Obverse inscription: [IOHN . GRENWAY]
Reverse description: Initials G. over I. I. arranged in a triad.
Reverse inscription: OF . C[REWKERNE]
Die axis measurement: 3 o'clock
Degree of wear: Extremely worn: poor
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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Boyne, W. and Williamson, G.C. | 1889 | Trade Tokens issued in the Seventeenth Century in England, Wales, and Ireland | London |