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Description: | Cast lead circular double faced token. The obverse of the token has the raised capital letters BB with a pellet between. The reverse has the letters VI, possibly representing 6 in Roman numerals. It is 120.4mm in diameter, 3.1mm thick and weighs 6.1 grams. Lead tokens had a wide variety of uses and were made locally, they are therefore hard to date precisely but those with initials are thought to be Post Medieval (1500-1850 AD). Examples combining letters and numbers are thought to be hop tokens used to keep track of the quantity of hops a picker had gathered and probably date from near the end of this range.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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