Record ID: WAW-8D638C
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval trade token, but the details cannot be identified. Trade tokens were issued between 1648 and 1672 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 an insight to the trade of the time. In 1672 regal copper coinage was introduced and the trade tokens were then banned (Besly 1997, 20). Besly, E. 1997Loose Ch…
Created on: Wednesday 25th July 2018
Last updated: Thursday 26th July 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-85F611
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper farthing token of Henry Peniell at the public house, the Seven Stars in Falmouth, dated to 1666 on similar tokens but the date is missing on this token. The public house, The Seven Stars is still open and the sign of the seven stars refers to the Pleiades, "not uncommon throughout the West of England" (Williamson, 1967, 98). Reference Williamson,1967, p.98, no.10 and Mayne & Williams,1985, p.24, no.5.
Created on: Wednesday 25th July 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 25th July 2018
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