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Record ID: SWYOR-4898A8
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy early 20th century token for John Roberts Billiard Rooms, Vicar Lane, Leeds dating from about AD 1902 - 1917. The obverse of the token has the legend JOHN ROBERTS / BILLIARD ROOMS and in the lower half of the field in a smaller size font, VICAR LANE / LEEDS. In the upper part of the field is the stamped value of 4D and the number 63. The upper and lower halves of the field are separated by a line and there is a solid circle enclosing the legends and inscriptions. The reverse is plain and undecorated apart from a circle of small connecting…
Created on: Monday 27th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-352D62
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead token dating from the Post Medieval period, about AD 1500 - 1800. The object is a thin circular disc of lead. One face has a series of scratched lines that resembles voided cross pattern with other diagonal lines. The opposite face has a series of rouletted lines across the face that appear to have obliterated any scratched design on that face. There is a faint rectangular design pressed onto the face with a narrower band across one end of the token. The rouletted, or wiggle work pattern has some lines that appear to form an upperca…
Created on: Monday 21st August 2023
Last updated: Monday 18th September 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-DB2E31
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval copper alloy 17th-century trade token farthing issued by John Purratt and Christo. Bacon at Selby in Yorkshire, Williamson Yorkshire 310, dating from 1648 - 1672. Ref: Williamson (1967) page 1338.
IOHN . PVRRATT[...] = The grocer's arms
CHRISTO [BACON] = [SEL / BY]
It is 16.1mm diameter, 0.8mm thick and 0.7g. Part of the edge is missing.
Created on: Thursday 29th December 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 1st February 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-C16E37
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy possible token, coin or jetton of Post Medieval or Modern date, AD 1500 - 1950. Less than a quarter of the flan survives. It has a line border inside the legend on both faces. A large letter C or G or scroll design is visible on one face, and possibly on both, but no other diagnostic features are visible. The legends are illegible. The fragment has a mottled brown patina. It is 20.9mm long, 11.8mm wide and 1.5mm thick. 1g. The estimated diameter is about 25mm.
Created on: Wednesday 28th December 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 1st February 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-045430
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-medieval copper alloy 17th-century trade token penny issued by Nic Delone at Lazey Hill (Lazars' Hill) in the City of Dublin in Ireland, Williamson Ireland number 555, dating from AD 1663 - 1679. Ref: Williamson (1967) page 1398.
Diameter 16.4mm; thickness 0.7mm and weight 1.01g. Part of the edge is missing.
Obverse legend: NIC DELONE LAZY HILL
Obverse field: 1D / N D
Reverse: The fruiterers' Arms (Adam and Eve under the tree with a serpent entwined round its trunk). No legend.
Created on: Monday 19th December 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 1st February 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-C395A6
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval copper alloy 17th century trade token farthing issued by Richard Lyle at Pontefract in Yorkshire, Williamson Yorkshire 265, dating to about AD 1648 - 1672. See Williamson (1891) page 1334.
The obverse carries the design of a castle flanked by two mullets or stars, all within a beaded circle. The legend is RICHARD LYLE * * and it starts at 10 o'clock. The reverse is completely illegible. It probably read R. M. L. in the field with the legend IN PONTEFRACT. The token is 15.9mm in diameter, and 1.1mm thick. It weighs 0.85g. An example in better condition can be seen …
Created on: Monday 10th January 2022
Last updated: Sunday 17th April 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-0AC046
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete moulded, cast lead-alloy probable token dating from about AD 1550 -1800. The obverse is worn but the uniface design appears to be eight radiating lines forming a star. The reverse is inconsistent with other tokens on the Portable Antiquities Scheme, as the edges are raised, forming an irregular and misshapen circle. The sides of the disc are angled, and the disc is unusually thick. The patina is light grey in colour with patches of untarnished lead on both the reverse and the obverse. It is 22.4mm in length, 20.6mm wide and 5.9mm thick. It has a weight of 13.6g
The rem…
Created on: Monday 20th December 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 8th February 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-5D2C3D
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Post Medieval to Modern token dating from AD 1700 - 1950. The copper alloy disc appears to be plain apart from the word "BISHOP" across one face, stamped in counter relief, theletters raised in a recessed rectangle. The lettering is uppercase and serifed. It is possible that the disc is a repurposed coin, but the size is not an exact match. It could be a halfpenny with edge wear. There is a crack in the flan. The token is 27.3mm diameter, 1.7mm thick, 5.8g.
Created on: Saturday 1st August 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 14th October 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-F7E061
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead uniface token, probably of Powell class 13 (framework), dating from the Post Medieval periods, about AD 1550 - 1750. It is oval in plan, flat on the underside and with a crude moulding on the upper side consisting of three roughly equidistant raised ridges crossed in the centre by a fourth ridge .The token has a length of 15.71mm, a width of 11.85mm, and a thickness of 3.71mm. It weighs 3.32g.
Created on: Monday 16th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 2nd April 2020
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Record ID: NLM-047A0C
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy token. Milled discoid ten shilling token of the Wakefield Industrial Society (1867-1962). Both sides bear a circumferential legend: WAKEFIELD INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY and, in a central roundel: 10/- / LIMITED. Suggested date: Modern, 1945-1962
Diameter: 21.9mm, Weight: 2.33gms, die axis: 12
Created on: Friday 11th October 2019
Last updated: Friday 11th October 2019
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This findspot is known as 'Hemsworth', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SWYOR-358E88
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A uniface cast lead token, coin weight, or gaming piece, probably dating from the post medieval period, AD 1500 - 1800. One face is incised with the numerals XII. The object has a diameter of 14.71mm, and a thickness of 3.70mm. It weighs 5.84g. Compare SUSS-17F513 and SUSS-9DE1E1 which are tokens with initials over XII.
Created on: Wednesday 26th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 11th July 2019
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Record ID: SWYOR-EE7599
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible Post Medieval token dating from AD 1550 - 1750, in the shape of a leaf (ovoid) with a cast design of raised ribs on one face emphasising the leaf design (Powell Type 17 -leaf). There is a lozenge shaped hole through the module in the centre rib. The wide end of the leaf is a broken edge. Both faces are also decorated with some rocker arm or wiggle work decoration. This is in irregular short lines between the ribs of the leaf on the side with the cast design, and used to form a possible letter B on the reverse, orientated with the loops of the B towards the broken straight e…
Created on: Friday 16th November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 10th January 2019
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Record ID: SWYOR-EE542B
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible Post Medieval lead token dating from AD 1550 - 1750. It is sub-circular and flat, and both faces are illegible or plain. It is 17.3mm diameter, 3.8mm thick and 6.3g.
Created on: Friday 16th November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 10th January 2019
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Record ID: SWYOR-30F958
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
A post-Medieval copper alloy trader's token: a farthing of John Naylor, a grocer of Wakefield, dated 1664: Williamson no. 361 (Yorkshire). Ref: Dickinson 1986: 236.
Obverse description: A soldier on horseback,galloping left, with drawn sword.
Obverse inscription: [JO]HN NAYLOR [GROCER]
Reverse description: An inscription in three lines reading N / I M, within a beaded circle.There are single, small lozenges flanking the N and a vertical pair between the I and M.
Reverse inscription: IN [WA]K[F]EILD 64
The token has been heavily cleaned and most of the detail is now lost. It is 1…
Created on: Thursday 2nd August 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 15th August 2018
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Record ID: SWYOR-30BDC7
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead alloy token of Medieval or early post-Medieval date, about AD 1250 - 1800. One side carries a device consisting of a raised central ridge, or possibly a casting seam, dividing the token into two parts. On one side of the division is a random grouping of eight small pellets; the other side of the division is blank, as is the reverse. The token has a mid-grey patina. It is 25.2mm in diameter and 2.3mm thick. It weighs 6.96gm.
There appear to be no immediate parallels on the database: similar tokens usually carry issuer's initials. See for example record WILT-97064A.
Le…
Created on: Thursday 2nd August 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 15th August 2018
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Record ID: SWYOR-B9E658
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
A silver piedfort or piéfort striking of a half penny of Robert the Bruce of Scotland (AD 1306 - 1329). Compare Spink (2003) Coins of Scotland, Ireland and the Islands number 5077 on page 21. The flan is 14.7mm diameter, 2.6mm thick and weighs 4.1g.
Obverse: Crowned bust left holding sceptre
+: ROBERTVS : DEI : GRA :
Reverse: Long cross with a pierced mullet of five points in each angle
SCOTORVM REX +
Die axis: 6 o'clock
Piedforts are unusual objects and their actual purpose has never been definitely established. In most cases, they are objects struck from the dies of a …
Created on: Tuesday 3rd July 2018
Last updated: Friday 2nd June 2023
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Record ID: FAKL-409756
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
Post Medieval copper alloy token, severly worn but the module and what remains of the lettering suggest that it belongs to the series issued in the 1660s. Obverse: helmeted head, right? set within a ring. H I ?. Reverse: ? set within a ring, lettering lost. Diameter 17.4mm, Mass 1.63g.
Created on: Sunday 4th June 2017
Last updated: Sunday 4th June 2017
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Record ID: FAKL-0AC1B8
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
Post Medieval copper alloy token, badly corroded with much loss of detail . Obverse: two lilies, DO [ ] NOTE?. Diameter 19.4mm, Mass 1.53g.
Created on: Wednesday 26th April 2017
Last updated: Thursday 27th April 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-0136A2
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval/Post Medieval lead token.
The token is circular and has two concentric circles surrounding a central pellet on both the obverse and reverse. There are two perforations on the token, each on the exact opposite sides of each other between the two concentric circles. The perforation appears on both sides.
Similar circular designs to: DENO-C612FB (TOKEN)
Created on: Wednesday 8th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 9th March 2017
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Record ID: LANCUM-8A3F0F
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete post-Medieval lead-alloy shield type Baltic ports flax seal - quartered shield with pellets in angles (c. 1800-c. 1900). - RB above 12K. RB are the initials of the grower/owner or agent and 12K refers to the quality of the flax ie 12 heads per bale. For a database of this type of Russian flax seal see http://www.peacehavens.co.uk/BSCROSS.htm​ The type is also discussed in John Sullivan's "Russian Cloth Seals in Britain: Trade, Textiles and Origins", (2012), esp pp 50-1. RB are relatively common initials for this type.
The diameter is 20mm and the weight 6.15g.
Created on: Monday 6th February 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2017
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