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Town traders token: postmedieval: copper alloy: Coventry halfpenny
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Northamptonshire County Council, Steven Ashby, 2007-09-04 12:23:59
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Town traders token: postmedieval: copper alloy: Coventry halfpenny
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English: Copper alloy traders token of postmedieval date (produced AD 1669). The token relates to Coventry, as its obverse bears the city's 'Elephant and Castle' arms, and the reverse the legend ' A Coventry Halfe Penny 1669'.

These tokens were issued by overseers of the poor, with the profits ostensibly used to help in their work with orphans.

Weight: 9.7g Diam: 21mm

Th: 1mm
Depicted place (County of findspot) Northamptonshire
Date 1669
date QS:P571,+1669-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 191583
Old ref: NARC-692865
Filename: NARC-692865 mc coventry token.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/149104
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/149104/recordtype/artefacts
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/191583
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 27 November 2020)
Object location52° 25′ 13.44″ N, 0° 48′ 08.47″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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