For well over a century the only known example of this seventeenth century token was a very corroded specimen held in the Fitzwilliam Museum. The surname is incomplete but begins DES and the central shield design is too worn to be identified. This is the only “incomplete” Cambridgeshire token to be listed in Searle, Williamson and Dickinson.
As part of a project to study the tokens of Cambridgeshire two further pieces have recently been found that allow the description to be completed. Background details of the issuer and his family are presented that make connections to Oliver Cromwell and the witch trials in New England a generation later.
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