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Record ID: PUBLIC-97C68C
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead token from a period 1690-1850. One side depicts the number 101 and the reverse side is blank. This is Type 8 Powell classification
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'New Romney', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SUR-910E87
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bent and extremely corroded halfpenny token issued by the city of Winchester in 1669. Obverse: legend in five lines [A WNCHES TER HALF PENNY 1669]. Reverse: The arms of Winchester - five castles in saltire, lion passant gaurdant either side of central castle. As Williamson (Hampshire) No. 211.
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-901CDF
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probably 17th century lead bi-face token of Powell type 2 (initial letters).
Sub-circular and flat. The obverse has the letters W B (ligate) in relief. The reverse has an uncertain depiction and the surface displays a light buff colour.
Diameter 11.5mm, thickness 2.8mm, weight 2.4g.
Similar examples on this database at: HAMP-D318F1, LVPL-D7A350 and PUBLIC-51C853.
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Near Sandwich', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: PUBLIC-833441
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead token c1690-1850. One side has a long cross with a raised centre dimple and two quarters next to each other have a diagonal line in each that run to the edge of the token. The reverse is blank. It is not circular but has curved opposite edges and straight opposite edges. This is a type 14 Powell classification
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'New Romney', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-7F35BE
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy token. Milled halfpenny token, dated 1665.
Obverse description: horizontal date: ***/1665/***
Obverse inscription: [-]ON*[--]GTON**
Reverse description: inscription over three lines: HIS/;HALF/PENY
Reverse inscription: [---]ST[---]
Diameter: 20.1mm, Weight: 2.18gms, die axis: 12
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-7F0F95
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy farthing token of Henry Sidnor of Norwich, Williamson 199, die axis 3 o'clock, weight 0.75g, 1667
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-7EFC0B
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy farthing token of Will Playford of Norwich, Williamson 182, die axis 4 o'clock, weight 0.72g, 1664
The full obverse inscription reads - WILL PLAYFORD, P/ W A and the reverse OF NORWICH 64, P/ W A
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2024
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Record ID: SF-7E457D
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead medieval to early post-medieval penny sized 'Boy Bishop' token, dating to the period c.AD 1470-1539.
Variant not listed by Rigold (1978, 95), but probably part of his Bury Series I ('neat, inscribed Bury series').
Obverse: .:.SANCTE nIChOLAE - Mitre
Reverse: AVE/ REX/ GEn/TIS. - Long cross dividing the legend with three pellets in each quarter.
Diameter: 16.40mm, thickness: 1.78mm, weight: 2.22g
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-7E3E36
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead medieval to early post-medieval penny sized 'Boy Bishop' token, dating to the period c.AD 1470-1539.
Rigold'S (1978, 95) Bury Series I ('neat, inscribed Bury series') Type F.
Obverse: SAnCTVS nIChOLAVS - Mitre
Reverse: AVE/ REX/ GEn/TIS. - Long cross dividing the legend with three pellets in each quarter.
Legend begins at 10 o'clock
Diameter: 16.13mm, thickness: 1.53mm, weight: 1.54g
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 28th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: BERK-7C4D3A
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead token of Post-Medieval date. The token is circular in plan and bi-faced. On one side is the head of a trident. On the other is the letters "?W", underlined with three pellets below.
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Sunday 21st January 2024
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Record ID: BERK-7C435B
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead token of Post-Medieval date. The token is Powell Type 2 (Petalled Flower). The token is circular in plan and bi-faced. On one side is a six petalled flower with a pellet in each petal. On the other is the letters "RC" within a pelletted border. There is a cross between the pellets at 12 o'clock.
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Sunday 21st January 2024
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Record ID: BERK-7C3851
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead token of Post-Medieval date. The token is Powell Type 2 (Petalled Flower). The token is circular in plan and bi-faced. On one side is a six petalled flower with a pellet in each petal. On the other is the letters "IC"
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Sunday 21st January 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-7BD3D4
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probably 17th century lead bi-face token of Powell type 2 / 20 (initials / monograms).
The obverse has the initial letters M S in one line with pellets above and below. The reverse has a figure four with the tail extending down to a symmetrical inverted figure four beneath, probably a traders monogram. The surface displays a buff / grey colour.
Diameter 14.3mm, thickness 2.5mm, weight 3.5g.
Similar examples on this database at: PUBLIC-ACAEF1, PUBLIC-B97687 and SUSS-2BB2D1.
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Near Sandwich', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-6778E4
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval copper-alloy trade token farthing issued by the City of Bristol, Gloucestershire, dated 1662 though the date has corroded. Williamson Gloucestershire 12. Williamson (1967, 241)
Measurements: Diameter: 21.41mm, Weight 2.92g
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 30th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Shipham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WMID-666257
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near complete uniface circular lead token dating circa AD1400-1800, Powell type 16.
The token has worn edges and an uneven surface patina. The obverse of the token has a stylised fleur-de-lis, with the outer components of the lis curving far outwards in a semi-circular shape. There is a central vertical line terminating with an open oval at the top. The token has two pellets at the 3 and 9 o'clock points. The reverse is undecorated.
Measurements:
Diameter: 16mm
Thickness: 1.8mm
Weight: 2g
Lead tokens had a wide variety of potential uses such as use as tallie…
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NARC-525928
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead-alloy Token of Post Medieval date (AD 1550-1700). The object resembles a Powell Type 3, uniface token. The object is disc-shaped with a convex upper surface. The upper surface has decoration in moulded relief of an equal armed cross and a pellet in each quadrant.
Length: 18.69mm, Width: 17.53mm, Thickness: 1.86mm, Weight: 3.2g
The token is missing minor portions of its outer flan.
The metal is cream in colour with a predominantly smooth patina.
This type of token is discussed in Fletcher, 2005, Leaden Tokens and Tallies, Roman to Victorian, pages …
Created on: Monday 15th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: SWYOR-516697
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead disc, probably a Post Medieval token or possibly a weight dating from AD 1550 - 1800. It is sub-circular and flat but uneven. There is a possible design in relief on one face but it is illegible. It has a cream patina.
Measurements are; diameter 22.4mm, thickness 4.2mm and weight 12.43g.
Created on: Monday 15th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: YORYM-514E44
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post-Medieval copper-alloy halfpenny trade token of Jonas Youle, Cross Keys, Kingston Upon Hull, dated to AD 1666.
Obverse: IONAS YOVLE OF 1666 around crossed keys.
Reverse: KINGSTON VPON HVLL around initials Y//I/A.
The token is 14.6mm in diameter and weighs 0.4g.
A similar example is illustrated in Thompson and Dickinson, pl.22, no.5911a.
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…
Created on: Monday 15th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 29th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: OXON-2FCC64
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
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 Change: A…
Created on: Saturday 13th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: PUBLIC-27B8F5
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval cast lead uniface token of Powell type 16 (Shields), probably dating to the 17th Century.
Sub-circular and flat. The face depicts a relief moulded shield bearing five diagonal lines (bends). The reverse is plain and the surface displays a light grey colour.
Diameter 14.2mm, thickness 1.8mm, weight 1.9g.
Similar examples on this database at: KENT-08E85A, PUBLIC-27841C and SUSS-4B3594.
Created on: Saturday 13th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Near Sandwich', grid reference and parish protected.
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