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17th Century Tokens : Unnamed_Towns in Uncertain_Pieces

W Numbers refer to Williamson's  Trade Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century in England, Wales and Ireland, (1891)

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W25: Uncertain_Pieces, Without Town Names (Farthing): (Date Unknown)
O  Three cloves
ANNE ADKINES
R  Three cloves
FOR NECESSARY CHANG
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This was found at Crewkerne, Somerset
W26: Uncertain_Pieces, Without Town Names (Farthing): (Date Unknown)
O  Three cloves
ANNE ADKINS
R  Three cloves
FOR NECESSARY CHANG
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W27: Uncertain_Pieces, Without Town Names (Farthing): (1666)
O  I B
IOHN BARHAM 1666 I B
R  Seven stars filling the field
[No Legend]
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W29: Uncertain_Pieces, Without Town Names (Farthing): (Date Unknown)
O  W M B
FOR WILLIAM BROCK W M B
R  R C
AND ROBERT COVLDRY R C
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W31: Uncertain_Pieces, Without Town Names (Farthing): (1658)
O  T H B
THOMAS BRIAN 1658 T H B
R  T H B
LININ DRAPER T H B
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W32: Uncertain_Pieces, Without Town Names (Farthing): (Date Unknown)
O  The sun
HENERY CHAPMAN
R  H C
QVONDAM ESQVIRE H C
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This token has been placed to Bath, in "Warner's History of Bath," where it is engraved with other Tokens of that city.
W33: Uncertain_Pieces, Without Town Names (Farthing): (Date Unknown)
O  The sun
HENRY CHAPMAN
R  H C
QVONDAM ESQR H C
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W35: Uncertain_Pieces, Without Town Names (Uncertain): (1670)
O  A globe
IOHN COVLTON 1670
R  The King's head
GOD SAVE THE KING
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W36: Uncertain_Pieces, Without Town Names (Farthing): (Date Unknown)
O  An orb surmounted by a cross
WILLIAM HALL
R  A blackamoor's head
PAINES BRINGS GAINES
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W37: Uncertain_Pieces, Without Town Names (Farthing): (Date Unknown)
O  An orb surmounted by a cross within an octagonal device of double lines
WILLIAM HALL
R  Three crowns, and three fleurs-de-lys in a circle round a star
PAINES BRINGS GAINES
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W38: Uncertain_Pieces, Without Town Names (Farthing): (Date Unknown)
O  [Unknown]
WILLIAM HALL
R  [Unknown]
PAINES BRINGS GAINES
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A variety of 36/37 with a man's head with a hat on it. Unknown whether this is on the reverse or the obverse. This token is very similar in the metal, device, and workmanship to the Nuremberg counters; it was possibly struck in that city.
W39: Uncertain_Pieces, Without Town Names (Farthing): (1660)
O  A heart
IOHN HARTLEY OB [olus]
R  A rose-tree in full flower
I H 1660
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W40: Uncertain_Pieces, Without Town Names (Uncertain): (1666)
O  A dove and olive branch
STEBVN HEATH
R  1666 and two stars in the field
1666
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W41: Uncertain_Pieces, Without Town Names (Uncertain): (1651)
O  A fan
WILLIAM HERENDEN
R  [Unknown]
APOTHECARY 1651
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W42: Uncertain_Pieces, Without Town Names (Uncertain): (1668)
O  Three plumes of ostrich feathers
IOHN FEATHERSTON
R  A unicorn
AT YE RED INN 1668
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This token may possibly be a Westmorland one, as the family of Featherston-haugh, of Kirkoswald, Westmorland, bear gules, a chevron between three ostrich feathers argent.
W44: Uncertain_Pieces, Without Town Names (Uncertain): (Date Unknown)
O  A forge
WILLIAM DICK OF BRAID
R  A caduceus, cornucopia, and W D
VIRTVTE FORTVNA COMES W D
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This token was issued by Sir William Dick of Braid to circulate amongst his culters and saltmakers.--Leahe's "Historical Account of Eye Money," p. 104.

Sir William Dick was Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and a very eminent merchant, with a fortune of upwards of £50,000. Having the means, he did not want the inclination to assist his countrymen, the Covenanters, with large sums of money to defray the necessary expenses of the war; but they failing in their payments, he so far overstrained his credit, that his bills were returned protested, and he was totally ruined. He therefore earnestly applied for relief to the Parliaments of England and Scotland. According to his state of the account, there were due to him from england £36,803; from Scotland, £28,131; in all, £64,934, for the payment of which he had warrants granted on the Chamber of London in 1641; on the English Customs in 1643 and 1644; on the cavaliers' estates in 1646; and on the excise of wine, in Scotland, 1651. It appears by Lord Loudon's, the Chancellor of Scotland, letters to the English House of Commons, and to the Commissioners of London, 1644, that there was a clear balance due to Dick of £34,000 from that nation. Notwithstanding these warrants for repayment, and the application of the Scots to their brethren in England, he had only recovered £1,000 in 1653, after sixteen years' solicitation, during which time he was reduced to so great straits, that he was arrested for some small debts contracted for his necessary subsistence, and, as it seems, died in prison December 19, 1655, aged 75.

This token is of good workmanship, thicker and heavier than the usual seventeenth century-tokens, which it must have preceded by a few years.

W52: Uncertain_Pieces, Without Town Names (Farthing): (1659)
O  [Detrited]
WILLIELMVS TINGCOMBE
R  A cross moline
ECCE SIGNVM 1659
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W55: Uncertain_Pieces, Without Town Names (Uncertain): (1669)
O  Legend in three lines
ANDREW / TUCKER / 1669
R  A griffin
[No Legend]
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Diamond shaped. Farthing?
W56: Uncertain_Pieces, Without Town Names (Uncertain): (Date Unknown)
O  A ship in full sail
JOHN MOORE
R  [Blank]
[No Legend]
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W57: Uncertain_Pieces, Without Town Names (Uncertain): (Date Unknown)
O  A bear and chain
CHEESMONGER CORNER
R  A bear and chain (incuse)
CHEESMONGER CORNER (incuse)
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W58: Uncertain_Pieces, Without Town Names (Uncertain): (1659)
O  [Unknown]
WILLIAM ADDISON
R  [Unknown]
THIS PAY 1659
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W60: Uncertain_Pieces, Without Town Names (Uncertain): (1658)
O  T F
THOMAS 1658 T F
R  C
CARTER 1658 C
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W61: Uncertain_Pieces, Without Town Names (Uncertain): (Date Unknown)
O  Three cloves
JOHN CHAPMAN FOR
R  Three cloves
NECESSARY CHANG
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Found at Chard.
W62: Uncertain_Pieces, Without Town Names (Uncertain): (1663)
O  A man dipping candles
RICHARD CLEMENT
R  R C 1663
TALLOW CHANDLER R C 1663
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