17th century halfpenny token, issued by Thomas Powell, baker, Cambridge, 1666.
Issuer: Powell, Thomas
Diameter: 18 mm
Die Axis: 270 degrees
Weight: 2.24 g
Method of acquisition: Loan (1937-08-11) by Trinity College, Cambridge
Production date: AD 1666
Label text from the exhibition ‘Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe, 1500–1800’, on display at The Fitzwilliam Museum from 26 November 2019 until 31 August 2020: Thomas Powell’s halfpenny token is decorated with nine lozenges in a diamond formation, probably representing a stylised plaited loaf. Since this device appears on other tokens where the issuer describes himself as a baker, it is likely that this was also the trade of the 22-year-old Powell who lived in the parish of St Clement’s, Cambridge.
Accession number: CM.TR.645-R
Primary reference Number: 96065
Dickinson: 71
Ordering: T17C-0317
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Coins and Medals
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