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Description: | A complete copper alloy 17thcentury trade token issued by William Baines of Wakefield, North Yorkshire dating toAD1664.Obverse: WILLIAM BAINES around grocers arms.Reverse: * IN WAKEFEILD 1664 around (B)//W(G) within beaded circle.The token is 16.2mm in diameter and weighs 0.9g.Ref: Dickinson (1986), p.878, no.6.Trade tokens were issued between 1648 and 1673 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. Such trade tokens rarely travel far from their place of issue and provide a wonderful insight to the trade of the time.
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