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European Coin To Attribute - Identified: 1649-1672 Leonard Bolt Token

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European-Coin-To-Attribute---Identified:-1649-1672-Leonard-Bolt-Token
European-Coin-To-Attribute---Identified:-1649-1672-Leonard-Bolt-Token

This weighs 0.93 grams and has a diameter of 16 milimeters. On the edge where it has been broken it looks copper.

On one side, the central L B flanking a rosette is prominent. I can read a partial inscriotion:

CROC....ICH or so it seems.

On the other side there is a shield and I can't quite make out any letters.
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Yikes!
Yes, on reverse it looks like CROCER or CROGER between 7 and 12:00

Obv I think we can see a B at 6:30 and maybe an L at 12:30?

SOmeone will recognize that L B, I am sure.
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Presumably a mid 17th century English trade token, issued by someone whose initials were L.B. and who was a grocer by trade. Perhaps a catalogue trawl would pin it down.
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Thanks, @CAM68. Looking at some, that seems highly probable. There are 20,000 types of them! So I will definitely need a catalogue.
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https://www.britishmuseum.org/colle...2001-0602-19

By luck, I found a match.

Obverse: LEONARD BOLT IN (with Grocers' arms)
Reverse: HIGHWORTH GROCER (Initials L B)

Highworth is in Wiltshire



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