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Description: | A complete struck / hammered copper alloy trader's halfpenny token, of the Post Medieval Period, dating from AD 1668 - AD 1669.The token is square in shape. The obverse reads: THOMAS DEDICOT GROCER HIS HALF PENY. The reverse reads: IN [BE]WDLEY SQVARE [DE]ALI[NG] with 3 cloves in the centre of writing.This identifies the token as a half penny token issued by an Thomas Dedicot, a Grocer and Bayliffe of Bewdley in Worcestershire (Williamson (1889), p1260, no 7).Trader's tokens were issued during the late 17th Century as a response to the absence of the lower coinage denominations.Length: 16.5 mmWidth: 16.5Thickness: 0.9 mmWeight: 1.0 gReference:Williamson, G.C,"Trade tokens issued in the seventeenth century in England, Wales, and Ireland, by corporations, merchants, tradesmen, etc. Illustrated by numerous plates and woodcuts, and containing notes of family, heraldic, and topographical interest respecting the various issuers of the tokens", Eliot Stock, London, 1889
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