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Description: | A post medieval copper alloy trader's token dating from 1666. It has a diameter of 18.7mm and is 0.7mm thick. It weighs 1.07g. It is a half penny token and it shows the grocer's arms on the obverse and was issued for a woman, as it says HER HALF PENY. Not all of the legend is legible, but her name may have begun MA (Mary?) and her business seems to have been in Hatfeild (Hatfield near Doncaster?).Obverse: grocer's arms*MA[...](RER) 1666reverse: HER / HALF / PENYHA(T)FEILD IN [...](HIR) [sic]Token coinage from this period is common as there was a shortage of small change so local traders would strike their own coins.A very similar token is recorded in Boynes Trade Tokens Volume II (1891) under Yorkshire and Hatfield as: O: MARY.FARRER. 1666 = the Grocer's Arms. R: HATFIELD.IN.YORKSHER = HER HALFE PENYDoncaster Museum are not aware of any other examples of this token having been found in the local area. However, a single Mary Farrer half-penny token is listed and illustrated in Hull Museums Publication No. 94, June 1913, Cat. No. 118. It is part of a large group of tokens from various places in Yorkshire, including Doncaster. It seems likely that these tokens were all issued at Hatfield near Doncaster.
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