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The E-Sylum: Volume 20, Number 45, November 5, 2017, Article 18

QUERY: COLONIAL-ERA TRADE TOKEN UNEARTHED

Lou Jordan at the University of Notre Dame submitted this query on behalf of Connecticut State Archaeologist Dr. Brian Jones. Can anyone help? -Editor

Unknown Colonial token obverse Unknown Colonial token reverse

I was hoping E-Sylum readers could assist in identifying the attached item. Brian Jones, the State Archaeologist for Connecticut recently sent me the following inquiry related to an item they recently uncovered. Neither I, not any of the other members of editorial board of The Colonial Newsletter were able to make an identification. Information regarding the context of the find from Brian's e-mail to me follows:

"This summer we unearthed a peculiar probable trade token at the Oliver Ellsworth site in Windsor, Connecticut. The site was occupied first in 1635 by Francis Stiles, one of Windsor’s founders. The token has a peculiar cross form with triangular terminations with a central dot within each termination on one side and a fleur-de-lys pattern on the reverse.

I have been unable to identify it after a number of attempts online and hope you may be able to help. The token(?) came from the edge of the outer wall of a filled cellar that was partially examined this summer. The cellar (from a barn or house) could date as early as 1635 – 1640 and the associated structure appears to have been demolished before about 1740 – so the context is not perfect, but we should be in that ballpark."

Unknown Colonial token obverse a1 Unknown Colonial token reverse b1
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