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A complete English Post-Medieval copper-alloy octagonal half penny trade token, issued by Thomas Sims in West Ham dating to AD 1668. Williamson (1889:235, no.342)
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A complete English Post-Medieval copper-alloy octagonal half penny trade token, issued by Thomas Sims in West Ham dating to AD 1668. Williamson (1889:235, no.342)
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English: A complete English Post-Medieval copper-alloy octagonal half penny trade token, issued by Thomas Sims in West Ham dating to AD 1668. Williamson (1889:235, no.342)

Obverse: THOMAS . SIMES . IN . WESTHAM . 1668

Reverse: WEE . ARE . 3 = HIS HALF PENY Two loggerheads

Dimensions: diameter: 20.93mm; weight: 1.96g

Reference: Williamson, G. C. 1889. Trade Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century Vol. I. Elliot Stock: London.

Copper alloy trade tokens were first struck in 1648. In 1656 half penny tokens were introduced. 1674 by Royal decree production of trade tokens ceased. Pers comm Verity Anthony
Depicted place (County of findspot) Greater London Authority
Date 1668
date QS:P571,+1668-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 880779
Old ref: LON-BAAB7D
Filename: LONBAAB7D.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
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Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/642078/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/880779
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Object location51° 30′ 02.16″ N, 0° 06′ 04.22″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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