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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2928071, member: 10461&quot;][USER=28531]@H8_modern[/USER] beat me to it on the Spanish piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to the hops token, I hadn&#039;t heard of them, though there were quite a few lead tokens made in England from late medieval times onward.&nbsp; This is a bit later than the lead tokens I&#039;ve seen. (I even <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/highlights-of-my-2013-metal-detecting-week-in-england.287138/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/highlights-of-my-2013-metal-detecting-week-in-england.287138/">dug one</a> while detecting over there).</p><p><a href="https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Pub/ArchCant/Vol.066.1953/066-06.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Pub/ArchCant/Vol.066.1953/066-06.pdf" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Pub/ArchCant/Vol.066.1953/066-06.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Pub/ArchCant/Vol.066.1953/066-06.pdf" rel="nofollow">I did find a PDF of a 1953 article about these.</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This is speculation, since I did not read the full article I just linked, but I would imagine the numbers on your token there had something to do with an individual worker&#039;s ID number (say &quot;Worker #272&quot;, perhaps).&nbsp; This thing probably would have been given to the worker for a particular quantity of hops harvested, and would&#039;ve had something to do with how they got paid later.&nbsp; They probably turned in these lead checks (tokens) after a certain period and exchanged them for actual silver money.&nbsp; The letters might have identified the farm or a company.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Edit</b>- aha.&nbsp; I just went back to read.&nbsp; To quote directly from the article:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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