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Farthing - Hampshire Andover / T. Paine
| Issuer | Thomas Paine (Andover, Hampshire) |
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| Year | 1648-1672 |
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| Currency | English Trade Tokens (1648-72) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a royal crown device, rendered in low relief typical of mid-seventeenth-century hammered trade tokens. A six-pointed star ornament appears above the crown in the upper field. The circumferential legend reads THOMAS · PAINE · OF *, disposed around the periphery within a beaded border. The lettering is in Roman capitals, somewhat irregular in spacing and depth due to the hand-struck production method. The overall design is characteristic of English provincial farthing tokens of the Interregnum and Restoration period. |
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| Reverse description | The central field bears a merchant's or issuer's initials arranged in monogram form: P above T and B, representing the forename and surname initials of Thomas Paine and his wife, a conventional format for seventeenth-century English trade tokens. The surrounding legend reads ANDOVER · IN · HAMSHIR * · P · T · B, disposed around the periphery within a beaded border. A six-pointed star ornament punctuates the legend at the top. The lettering is in Roman capitals, struck in the same irregular hammered manner as the obverse. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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