Trade token of Elinor Roope
This trade token was worth one farthing. Documentary records show that Elinor Roope married a cloth-maker a few years after she issued this token. It is not known what her trade was before she married.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 36/1935
- Category
- Array
- Collection Class
- Numismatics
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Skinner, F
- Material
- copper alloy
- Common Name
- trade token of Elinor Roope
- Simple Name
- token
- Inscription Transcription
- 1669.ELINOR.ROOPE.IN*; ST SIDWELL.PARRISH.EXON.
- Period Classification
- Charles II (1660-1685)
- Production Date
- 1669
