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Description: | Complete Post-Medieval copper-alloy token halfpenny of seventeenth century date. The obverse has the inscription 'Nottingham Halfepenny Chainged by ye Chamberlains 1669' arranged in five lines in italic script. The reverse shows the town arms. This example is recorded in Williamson's 'Trade Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century; Volume 2 ', as number 51, p.913.Trade tokens were issued between 1648 and 1672 at a time when there was little low denomination coinage being issued by the crown. As a result traders and business proprietors began issuing tokens as an alternate coinage with equivalent denominations of a farthing, half penny or penny.
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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