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Unique ID: YORYM-7624AB
Object type certainty: Certain
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An incomplete and worn copper-alloy halfpenny trade token of an uncertain issuer dating to the period AD 1648 - 1673. The token is too worn to determine any further diagnostic detail.
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 action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1648
Date to: Circa AD 1673
Quantity: 1
Weight: 0.9 g
Diameter: 20 mm
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Other reference: YMT : E06345
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Token halfpenny
Obverse description: Illegible
Obverse inscription: Illegible
Reverse description: Illegible
Reverse inscription: Illegible
4 Figure: SE7950
Four figure Latitude: 53.94009431
Four figure longitude: -0.79802777
1:25K map: SE7950
1:10K map: SE75SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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Find number: YORYM-9C897A
Object type: TOKEN
Broadperiod: POST MEDIEVAL
An incomplete and worn copper-alloy halfpenny trade token of an uncertain issuer dating to the period AD 1648 - 1673.
Trade tokens were is…
Workflow: Awaiting validation
Find number: YORYM-9C96B9
Object type: TOKEN
Broadperiod: POST MEDIEVAL
An incomplete and worn copper-alloy halfpenny trade token of an uncertain issuer dating to the period AD 1648 - 1673.
Trade tokens were is…
Workflow: Awaiting validation
Find number: YORYM-B7FC84
Object type: TOKEN
Broadperiod: POST MEDIEVAL
A complete copper alloy trade token of post-medieval date. The token is extremely worn rendering the majority of the diagnostic detail illegi…
Workflow: Awaiting validation