Token
Also to be referred as pledge, ticket or sometimes as coin weight. A token is mostly a disc shaped flat object cast of lead or lead alloy in the size of a coin. Normally there are geometrical imprints like wheel or flower motives on one side. The actual application has not been clearly defined in Austria.
- Ronald Salzer, Vermessen? Metrik des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit im Spiegel der archäologischen Funde aus Österreich, Beiträge zur Mittelalterarchäologie in Österreich 29/2013, 137-144.
- David Powell, Leaden Token Telegram, 2005-2016, Leaden Token Telegram.
Recent finds
We have recorded 1 find of this object type.
