Farthing - Dorset Dorchester / Town

Features

Issuer	England (United Kingdom)
Król	Charles II (1660-1685)
Type	Emergency coinage › Merchant tokens
Year	1669
Value	1 Farthing (1⁄960)
Currency	English Trade Tokens (1648-72)
Composition	Miedź
Weight	3 g
Diameter	21 mm
Thickness	1 mm
Shape	Okrągły
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Number	N# 477071
References	Dickinson# 53-56 Michael J. Dickinson; 1986. Seventeenth Century Tokens of the British Isles and Their Values. Spink & Son. , B-W# 38 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).

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Obverse

(en) Town arms upon a five turret castle, corners of which break inner beaded circle, rose on front brickwork of three towers, pierced sexfoil at top both side, legend surrounding.

Script: łaciński

Lettering: THE. ARMES. OF. DORCHESTER

Reverse

(en) H*D at centre, cinquefoil between letters, three cinquefoils above, date below, all within beaded circle.

Script: łaciński

Lettering: A. DORCHESTER. FARTHING

Edge

Zwykły. Automatically translated

Comments

(en)

DORCHESTER CU Farthing Token, 1669, Town Arms, Castle.

The Dorchester town minutes record the following entry in February of 1668. "It is ordered and desired yt Mr. Jasper Samwayes one of this Company doe speedily procuer Twenty pounds in copper Farthings for ye beniffet of ye pore of this Borough and that ye Towne armes be engraven on one side, and HD on ye other syde, and on ye side where ye Towne Armes are to be ingraven Round, ye armes of Dorchester and on ye other side where HD be, Dorchester Farthing, and under HD ye date of ye Lord." The explanation for HD initials is not given but the D is probably for Dorchester, the H could be for the Latin habitat.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1669

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