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Description: | Complete but worn & pierced copper alloy token halfpenny of 17th Century date.Obverse: HENRV . SNEATON . 1667 around 'HIS HALF PENY'Reverse: IN . FLOWER . GATE . IN . WHITBY around three ammonites (two above, one below)The three ammonites represent the arms of Whitby Abbey, possibly due to the fact that these fosils are a common find in the area, with the number of three pertaining to the holy trinity. Reference: Williamson's 'Traders' Tokens of the Seventeenth Century', Vol. II, p.1344, number 371.Small change tokens, such as this one, were produced by local traders for a short period in the latter 17th century due to shortage of officially produced low denomination coinage. Most tokens do not seem to have travelled far from their point of issue. In this case the coin may have been kept as a souvenir hence the reason it has been pierced and the reason for its distance from Whitby when found.
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