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Description: | Post Medieval cast lead-alloy circular double-faced token. The token has a raised initials RW on one side, the other side has a raised I or 1 in the centre. It is 15.8mm in diameter, 1.7mm thick and weighs 2.53 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 generally thought to be Post Medieval in date, c.1500-1850 AD.Those with 6, 12 and 24 on were used in Sussex and Kent to keep track of the amount of hops pickers had collected and often traded locally as a currency which could be redeemed with the farmer at the end of the season. It is possibly this was related to that system.
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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