Seventeenth-Century Tokens of Wells and its Hinterland – Adrian Marsden

A chronic shortage of currency after the English Civil War of the 1640s led to private traders across the country having their own token currency produced. Norfolk was no exception and several dozen places across the county were home to token issuers. Adrian will be talking about how this token coinage worked and the issuers who lived in Wells and the immediate area.
Adrian Marsden is a numismatist whose research interests include the Roman coinage, tokens, coin forgery of all periods and Roman Britain. He set up the Norfolk Token Project in 2014 to foster interest in the county’s seventeenth-century series.