Record ID: DENO-7739A0
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast lead uniface token probably of Post-Medieval date dating to the period of circa 1500-1900. The object is broadly circular. It has an 8 armed cross, with a pellet in the top half of each segment. The other side of the object is badly worn but contains a central setting which has broken in half. The pattern on this token seems to combine Powell types 3 and 14 but matches Fletcher type 10 (2005: 105). Fletcher notes that line and pellets designs on tokens were probably inflenced by base silver farthings issued in the Tudor period. Diameter: 33.8mm; Thickness: 5.…
Created on: Friday 6th April 2018
Last updated: Friday 25th May 2018
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Record ID: SF-76FBA8
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy halfpenny token struck for Peter Towson of Woodbridge, a hosier, dating to 1669. Williamson no. 364. Obverse: *PETER TOWSON HOSIER, inscription HIS/HALF/PENNY in three lines within inner border. Reverse: initials P T M in triangle, cinquefoils between, *IN WOODBREDG 1669 The token has had an irregular circular hole punched through its middle, possibly by a nail Copper alloy farthing trade tokens were first struck in 1648 at a time when there was little low denomination coinage being issued by the crown and a general shortage of small change. In…
Created on: Friday 6th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 14th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bromeswell', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-76B48A
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy farthing token struck by the Ipswich Corporation, dating to 1670. Williamson no. 158. Obverse: arms of Ipswich-per pale, on the dexter side, a lion rampant; on the sinister, three hulls of ships Reverse: AN/IPSWICH/FARTHING/1670 in four lines
Created on: Friday 6th April 2018
Last updated: Friday 6th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-75B9F0
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn crudely cast lead-alloy uniface token of the Late Medieval to Early Modern period, dating to AD1400 - AD 1850. Description: The token is roughly circular and uniface (with decoration on one side). The decoration consists of an 8 spoked wheel with the spokes poking out past the rim. It seems likely that the projecting spokes may be meant to represent a The token is grey and with some patches of off white. Measurements: 21.38mm in diameter, 1.87mm thick and 4.16g in weight. Discussion: Lead tokens had a wide variety of potential uses such as tallies, gaming pieces, ticke…
Created on: Friday 6th April 2018
Last updated: Thursday 12th April 2018
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Record ID: KENT-757816
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn, abraded and warped probable post-Medieval cast lead or lead-alloy circular biface token (c. 1500-c. 1850). Description: The token is relatiely small with a stylised outline of a human head on one side and the ligated letters 'HC' on the other. Measurements: 13.21mm in diameter, 1.71mm thick and 1.22g in weight. Discussion: Lead tokens had a wide variety of potential uses such as tallies, gaming pieces, tickets, weights, etc. and are believed to have been locally produced; they are therefore difficult to date precisely. The bus ton this example seems likely to be medie…
Created on: Friday 6th April 2018
Last updated: Thursday 12th April 2018
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Record ID: SWYOR-73F55D
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn octagonal Lincoln trade token dating from AD 1669. The obverse has five lines of italic script, too worn to read apart from the date. The reverse has a shield with a cross on it with a fleur-de-lys in the centre, which is the city Arms of Lincoln. See Williamson (1889) Trade tokens issued in the seventeenth century, number 138. 138. (octagonal) Obverse: Lincoln / Citty . Halfe / Peny . changd , by / the , Maior / 1669 (in five lines). Reverse: Arms of Lincoln; on a cross, a fleur-de-lis Compare also LIN-B025E2, LIN-EEB632, NLM-AA43C1, LEIC-6BEDB7 and NLM-7D5514. …
Created on: Friday 6th April 2018
Last updated: Saturday 4th May 2019
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