Record ID: OXON-053C9C
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval (late 16th to early 17th centuries) anonymous jetton. This is an unattributed jetton. Mitchiner 1463-1472. Mitchiner, M. 1988 Jettons, Medalets and Tokens: The Medieval Period and Nuremberg Seaby,
Created on: Saturday 30th December 2023
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
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Record ID: WMID-7BD71F
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A clipped and worn copper alloy rose farthing of Charles I (1625-49), uncertain type (North, vol2, 1991, p. 165).  The obverse shows a very worn design of a crown with two sceptres in saltire through it.  The reverse is extremely worn, and a faint rose design is distinguishable.  Measurements: Diameter: 10.8mm Weight: 0.26g Die axis:  12
Created on: Tuesday 24th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 11th December 2023
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Record ID: LEIC-E927A2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Milled sixpence of George III (1760-1820), dating to 1817. Obverse depicts the bull-necked laureate bust, facing right, with inscription 'GEOR III D G  BRITT REX F D 1817'. Reverse depicts a shield with the Arms of England, Scotland, Ireland and Hanover, crowned, with Garter band. The white metal plating is now quite worn on the face of the coin, revealing a darker metal core which indicates this is likely a contemporary forgery. Such forgeries of precious metal coins were not uncommon during the reign of George III. Diameter: 19.5 mm W…
Created on: Monday 24th July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 3rd August 2023
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Record ID: NLM-C2361D
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy token. Privately minted halfpenny . Kevin Woodward kindly comments: '1792 John Harvey halfpenny Norwich token Great Britain 1792 Halfpenny Norwich John Harvey Conder Token – Our Coin Catalog (mycoinalog.com'.  ?Obverse description: A large open structure of straight beams, with a small wheel in the right corner, possibly a mechanical loom rendered as a perspective view. ?Reverse description: A shield with spurred upper corners displaying a castle with three towers with a lion walking left  with forepaw raised in foreground. Suggested date: P…
Created on: Tuesday 4th April 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 5th April 2023
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Record ID: OXON-4BD195
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete worn and folded Post-Medieval copper alloy 'Venus penny' jetton dating from AD 1490-1550. The jetton has been folded in half between 2 and 8 o'clock as seen on the obverse obscuring the reverse. Obverse description: Austro-Burgundian shield in five parts: Three Lis (Burgundy modern), 3 horizontal lines, paly, 3 oblique lines (Burgundy ancient), Brabant - lion rampant (Brabant), overall a lion rampant the Escutcheon of Flanders. Above Burgundian steel accosted by three flints (annulets). Reverse description: obscured Mitchiner (1988:265) writes "…
Created on: Thursday 9th February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-527266
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval or Modern unidentified copper alloy token, button or jetton which is bent and has a break. It probably dates fom AD 1650 - 1900. One face is illegible, or perhaps blank. The other has parts of the legend visible: TH[...]SALL / B[...]BERTON round the top and bottom. The central design is illegible. Diameter 23.0mm; thickness 9.0mm; weight 1.66g.
Created on: Monday 16th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 14th February 2023
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Record ID: IOW-F78532
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy farthing of Charles I (AD 1625-1649), rose farthing, class unclear (North , Spink 3201-3207 - end date as of Spink 2003), unclear mint. Heavily corroded and with a damaged reverse face. Obverse: Crowned rose. Legend: Unclear due to damage. Reverse: Unclear due to damage. Legend: Unclear due to damage.
Created on: Thursday 24th November 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 30th November 2022
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Record ID: NLM-530A06
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy token, kindly identified by the finder as a Raadsteken token of 1590. Milled effectively uniface token, apparently assertively cleaned by the finder. Obverse description: a square arrangement of four dots on a dull dark ground. Reverse description: double headed imperial eagle with a pellet [L] and annulet [R]below the heads, over a heraldic shield charged with a single horizontal bar. The shield is flanked by numerals: 15 90. This side is brassy and bright. Suggested date: 1590 Diameter: 23.9mm, Weight: 4.11gms
Created on: Tuesday 11th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 11th October 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-E55D56
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval copper alloy coin: a rose farthing of Charles I (AD 1625-1649), Type 1 dating from 1636 - 1644. Initial mark missing on a chip in the coin.  It is 13.1mm in diameter and 0.8mm thick. It weighs 0.53g. See North (1975) Volume 2, page 140, no. 2289.
Created on: Thursday 18th August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 8th November 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-8FA06A
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy coin weight issued under Charles I dating to the period AD 1632 - 1649. The weight is circular with angled sides and was issued following the ban of square weights in 1632 for use in verifying a silver halfcrown coin. The obverse is illegible but would have depicted the crowned king with sword raised overhead on horseback advancing right. The image is within a garter bearing a legend. The reverse depicts the large initials CR for Charles Rex. Further details are illegible, but it probably had the smaller letter ES between the initials at th…
Created on: Monday 9th May 2022
Last updated: Monday 10th October 2022
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Record ID: NLM-458B6C
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin. Privately issued milled Sheffield Penny, dated between 1801 and 1809. Obverse description: Workhouse: elevation view of a three-storied house with central door and picket fence. Obverse inscription: [OVERS]EERS OF THE POOR 180[-] Reverse description: Figure standing right left hand to neck and right arm alongside body, on low plinth. Reverse inscription: SHEFFIELD PENNY Diameter: 33.7mm, Weight: 21.76gms, die axis: 6
Created on: Wednesday 30th March 2022
Last updated: Thursday 31st March 2022
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Record ID: NLM-2EC5D7
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy token. Milled halfpenny token of John Lathorp of Caister, dated 1668, Wilkinson no. 51. Obverse description: Shield of Arms charged with a chevron with six small features above the chevron and three below, the Grocers’ Arms. Obverse inscription: *IOHN.[L]ATHOR[P]. Reverse description: legend over three lines: HIS/HALF/PENY Reverse inscription: *OF.CAISTER.1668 Diameter: 18.9mm, Weight: 1.47gms, die axis: 12
Created on: Tuesday 29th March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 29th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kirton in Lindsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-819E99
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy post-medieval Nuremberg jetton, c. AD 1500-1570. 'Lion of St Mark' type, fictitious legends. Obverse: winged Lion of St. Mark clutching a book of gospels, crown initial mark Reverse: Imperial orb within a double tressure of three arches. Diameter: 27.78mm, weight: 4.96g.
Created on: Wednesday 19th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 19th January 2022
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Record ID: WMID-585843
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy trade token of 17th Century dating, issued by Arthur Saunders of Salisbury in 1656. C.f. Williamson, p 487, no 151. Obverse: A squirrel Obverse inscription: ARTHER. SAVNDERS Reverse: A . S Reverse Inscription: OF . SARVM . 1656 Diameter: 16.0 mm Thickness: 0.8 mm Weight: 0.9 g
Created on: Tuesday 13th October 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 13th October 2020
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Record ID: WREX-DCE7CC
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Eighteenth-century copper Conder Token dating to the early 1790s. The obverse has the Grocers Arms (a shield with a red chevron and 6 cloves, supported by two griffins with a pack camel above) with the lettering MANCHESTER PROMISSORY HALF PENNY with a date, which is illegible.. Published examples are dated 1792 and 1793. The reverse has the bale mark of the East India company and would have had the lettering PAYABLE AT IN FIELDINGS GROCER & TEA DEALER. See Dalton & Hamer 1910, 87. Diameter: 28.4mm; weight: 7.62g
Created on: Monday 20th April 2020
Last updated: Monday 20th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gwernymynydd', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-587963
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy trade token, probably a farthing or halfpenny token. It is largely illegible though it is still possible to see the obverse has an illegible bordered circumferal inscription. The centre consists of a crown over the initials C-R. The reverse has an illegible bordered circumferal inscription but the central element is totally illegible. It is possibly from the same issuer as LVPL-D35073. It dates from c1600 to c1700 AD. Diameter is 17mm and the weight 1.24g.
Created on: Tuesday 25th February 2020
Last updated: Monday 27th July 2020
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Record ID: LANCUM-EC993E
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy trade token, or possibly a coin, of the United East India Company, probably a Manchester halfpenny token. It is quite corroded and much decorative detail has been lost. The obverse bears the bale mark of the United East India Company - V above, E to the right, I to the left, C below, all enclosed within a heart-shaped double lined border with a double lined saltire separating the letters and a 4 surmounting the heart. The rest of the obverse and the reverse are illegible, though some of the marks on the reverse are suggestive of a coat of arms or similar …
Created on: Monday 27th January 2020
Last updated: Monday 27th January 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-598C7A
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval copper alloy 17th-century trade token half penny issued by OTTEWELL ROBOTHAM at Doncaster in Yorkshire, Williamson Yorkshire 83, dating to 1669. Ref: Williamson (1889) page 1315. The obverse is inscribed 'HIS / HALFE / PENY / 1669'. The reverse shows the tallow chandler's arms. It is 20.4mm in diameter and 0.5mm thick. It weighs 1.29g. Compare https://www.lot-art.com/auction-lots/Tradesmens-Token-17th-Century-Yorkshire-Doncaster-12-d/550-tradesmen_token_century-01.6.19-station There is an example in the British Museum collection (number T.5650) which ca…
Created on: Monday 20th January 2020
Last updated: Sunday 14th March 2021
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Record ID: OXON-90707A
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval copper alloy trade token farthing issued by Thomas Hurdman of Wantage, Berkshire dating to AD 1648-1672. Williamson Berkshire 152 (Williamson 1891, 39).
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
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Record ID: OXON-8F3A14
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn Post-Medieval copper alloy trade token farthing probably issued by William and Mary Sanders of Witney, Oxfordshire dating between AD 1660-72. Williamson Oxfordshire 241 (1891, 937).
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 15th April 2020
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