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Description: | A late Medieval lead token. There is a raised cross on one face, with a pellet in each quarter - echoing the long cross coinage of an earlier date. There is perhaps the remains of some further detail on the other face, but this is too worn to make out. The object bears strong similarities to a token illustrated in Fletcher (2005, p.40), which is suggested to be of 15th century date and is one of a series from this period that appear to have been strongly influenced by contemporary coin designs. The illustrated example is decorated with a cross formed from two sets of parallel lines, with a single pellet in each quadrant, echoing, albeit simply, the long-cross coinage of this period. This particular example, however, is much more crudely executed, with a set of off-centre parallel lines crossed at one end by a single line and with a pellet only in one quadrant (with perhaps a slight one in the quadrant adjacent to it). However, the similarities are enough to suggest that this is probably a token of a similar, though cruder, type. The reverse of the object is undecorated with a raised circular section in the centre - probably the remains of poor casting. Fletcher (ibid. p.37) suggests that they fact that these tokens were imitating coins suggest that they probably had a number of commercial uses in place of official small change.Diameter: 18.37mm, Thickness: 3.29mm, Weight: 5.1g
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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