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Unique ID: OXON-362ADA
Object type certainty: Certain
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A chipped but nearly complete Post-Medieval copper alloy trade token farthing issued by Edmund Rowbright of Chipping Norton dating to AD 1648-1672. Williamson Oxfordshire 71. (Williamson 1891, 927).
The token is slightly bent into a very shallow U-shape and is chipped around much of its circumference.
Class: Williamson Oxfordshire 71
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
Thickness: 0.78 mm
Weight: 0.45 g
Diameter: 14.7 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 5th February 2020 - Wednesday 4th March 2020
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Other reference: OMS receipt 2320
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Incomplete
Denomination: Token farthing
Obverse description: E. D . R . R above the E and the D
Obverse inscription: EDMOND . RO[WBRIG]HT
Reverse description: OF . [CHI]PPING NORTON
Reverse inscription: A lion rampant
Die axis measurement: 3 o'clock
Degree of wear: Hardly worn: extremely fine
4 Figure: SP3918
Four figure Latitude: 51.85922951
Four figure longitude: -1.43509981
1:25K map: SP3918
1:10K map: SP31NE
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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Williamson, G.C. | 1967 | Trade Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century | London | Seaby Ltd |