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Description: | A copper alloy Post Medieval trade token dating from AD 1666, issued by J Wither of Pontefract at The Star Inn.Obverse: a radiant star[...] (WITHER AT Ye STAR)Reverse: a royal shield(IN PONTEFRACT) 1666A token listed in "Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries, in Yorkshire" by William Boyne (1858) is similar. See number 233.See also Thompson and Dickinson (1999) Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, 49, The Norweb Collection, Tokens of the British Isles 1575 - 1750, Part VI, Wiltshire to Yorkshire, Ireland to Wales. This token is listed as number 6012 on plate 26.The token is 15.6mm diameter, 0.8mm thick and 0.64g.
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