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Post medieval coin: Pipe stamps on 1797 penny
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Berkshire Archaeology, David Williams, 2012-08-21 16:21:36
Title
Post medieval coin: Pipe stamps on 1797 penny
Description
English: A 'token' made from a halfpenny of George I or II, worn smooth. Various symbols have been stamped onto both surfaces.

Side 1. Three clay tobacco pipes; D; a quatrefoil; a star and 'rod'; a 'rod' and a trefoil.

Side 2. A star and a 'rod'.

Dr David Higgins comments:

"Coins were counterstamped or countermarked for three basic purposes: (1) To indicate official sanction or adoption as legal specie (mostly in the West Indies and South America); (2) for advertising, symbolic or utilitarian purposes for merchants, fraternal organizations, political campaigns, admission requirements, etc.; (3) for ... testing purposes such as silversmiths testing their punches." (Maurice M. Gould, July 1967 issue of "The Numismatist).

This example fits well with the second category. Other examples are shown here (drawn from online auction sites).

The 1797 1d and 2d coins seem to have been the favourites to countermark, but are usually in a very worn condition, suggesting it was done in the 1820s or 1830s.
Depicted place (County of findspot) West Berkshire
Date between 1750 and 1850
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
FindID: 516717
Old ref: SUR-CD7612
Filename: Pipe stamps on 1797 1d.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
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/393318
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/393318/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/516717
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 1 December 2020)
Object location51° 26′ 56.04″ N, 1° 08′ 32.53″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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