Farthing - Oxfordshire Oxford / T. Hunsdon
Features
| Issuer |
England
(United Kingdom)  |
|---|---|
| Type | Emergency coinage › Merchant tokens |
| Year | 1666 |
| Value | 1 Farthing (1⁄960) |
| Currency | English Trade Tokens (1648-72) |
| Composition | Miedź |
| Weight | 0.85 g |
| Diameter | 15 mm |
| Shape | Okrągły (nieregularny) |
| Technique | Młotkowana |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 386977 |
| References | B-W# 145 William Boyne, George Charles Williamson (ed.). Trade Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century in England, Wales and Ireland, by corporations, merchants, tradesmen, etc.. Elliot Stock, London, United Kingdom (2 volumes). |
Obverse
(en) Three leopards heads from the arms of the Worshipful Company of Weavers within twisted wire circle, legend around.
Script: łaciński
Lettering: THOMAS HVNSDON
Reverse
(en) Issuers initials within twisted wire circle, legend around.
Script: łaciński
Lettering:
*IN * OXON * 1666*
TH
Edge
Zwykły
Comments
(en)
Thomas Hunsdon (1642-1701) was the son of a yeoman of Sparsholt. At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to an Oxford chandler, John Hunsdon and was granted his freedom in 1664. By 1666, when this token was issued, he was a Constable of the town, he was married to his wife Elizabeth by 1667 and had four children born between March 1667 (OS) to 1676. She is recorded as dying in March 1682 (OS).
He served as Mayor's Chamberlain in 1672, Junior Baliff and Moneymaster in 1676, Assistant Mayor in 1684, and Mayor of Oxford in 1686-1687.
In 1688 he was involved in the controversy over James II's appointment of Aldermen to the council and is depicted in Heemskerk the Younger's painting "The election in the Guildhall in Oxford", which is extant to this day. He served in various other civic roles. He was married again by 1697, and he served as Mayor for a second time in 1697-8. He died in 1701, a rich man. His tomb, shared with Elizabeth, his first wife, is still extant in the University Church of St Mary-the-Virgin, Oxford.
The premises he was trading from in 1666 when this token was issued are uncertain, but may be 103 High Street, which is still extant.
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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