Lead Token Sexfoil and Ornamental branch

Lead Token (Sexfoil and Ornamental branch) - obverseLead Token (Sexfoil and Ornamental branch) - reverse

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Features

Location United Kingdom (United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies)
Type Trade tokens › Wage token
Currency United Kingdom - Farm and Hop Tokens
Composition Lead
Weight 12.53 g
Diameter 22.79 mm
Thickness 4.58 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Number
N#
81431

Obverse

Cast lead token dating to the 17th or 18th century with a linear sexfoil design

Reverse

Ornamental branch

Edge

Plain

Comments

The cultivation of hops was a popular industry, first because it was very profitable, and secondly because it employed labour for almost all the year, " Planting, Soiling, Houghing, Poling, Tying and Picking."
All the picking had to be done in a few weeks, many thousands of pickers were required. These came chiefly from London, for “a holiday with work and pay," and were known as" furiners."
Payment for picking was arranged through the medium of tallies and hop-tokens. These showed the number of bushels picked, and were the basis of payment after the rate was agreed upon, which sometimes took several days.
Hop-tokens were passed as money between the pickers themselves, and were also accepted by the shop-keepers and inn-keepers in the locality, who were sure that the tokens would be redeemed later by the growers who issued them.

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