Rights Holder: The Portable Antiquities Scheme
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Unique ID: OXON-37879B
Object type certainty: Certain
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A very worn Post-Medieval copper alloy trade token farthing issued by Richard Groves of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire dating to AD 1659 on the token. Williamson Oxfordshire 68 (Williamson 1891, 927).
Class: Williamson Oxfordshire 68
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 1659
Date to: Exactly AD 1659
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 0.78 mm
Weight: 0.65 g
Diameter: 16 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: Complete
Denomination: Token farthing
Obverse description: A wild man in a grove
Obverse inscription: [RICHARD. G]RO[VES . 1659]
Reverse description: R . E . G. G above R and the E
Reverse inscription: [OF . CHIPPING . NORTON]
Degree of wear: Extremely worn: poor
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 |