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A Medieval Token
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Birmingham Museums Trust, Susheela Burford, 2020-09-04 18:57:03
Title
A Medieval Token
Description
English: A complete lead alloy token dating to the late Medieval to Post Medieval period (c. AD 1400-1600). The token has a cast design of a long cross on one face with a single pellet in each quarter. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The token can be classified as Powell Type 14. The token has a dark grey patina. 

Such tokens have been suggested as imitations of Medieval hammered long cross pennies. However, lead tokens had a wide variety of potential uses such as use as tallies, gaming pieces, tickets, weights, etc. and are believed to have been locally produced; they are therefore difficult to date precisely.

See PAS records <a href="https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/912333">ASHM-EE2406</a>; <a href="https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/913816">WMID-C53655</a> and <a href="https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/909779">SUR-5AF106</a> for comparable examples.

The overall dimensions are as follows: 20.74mm in length, 19.88mm in width, 4.65mm in thickness and 7.62g in weight.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Staffordshire
Date between 1400 and 1600
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1400-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1600-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindIdentifier: 1003023
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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/1114913
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1114913/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1003023
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 13 November 2020)
Object location52° 39′ 44.64″ N, 2° 10′ 16.82″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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