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Description: | Late medieval to post medieval cast bifaced circular lead-alloy token of Powell Classes 2 and 14 . It is decorated on one side with the raised initial M within a raised border. The other side has a raised design of an equal armed cross with a large pellet in each quarter.Lead tokens had a wide variety of uses and were made locally; they are therefore hard to date precisely and could be medieval or post medieval in date, c. AD 1250-1800. Until recently cross and pellet designs were thought to be contemporary with the similar medieval coin designs; however publication of moulds and double faced tokens which combine post medieval initial style designs with cross and pellets suggest the latter continued into the post medieval period.
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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