ABSTRACT
The coins, jettons and tokens discovered during the excavations at Caldecote all date from the post-medieval period, with the earliest official coin having an issue date of 1700. Copper coins of William III are fairly common in post-medieval occupation deposits, and they circulated well into the early eighteenth century alongside those of Anne and the Georgian issues. This coin is fairly worn and is probably a casual loss from the first half of the eighteenth century. Jettons, or reckoning counters, were used principally as tools for making calculations. The Nuremberg guildmaster's quantity and condition suggest that the circulation of individual pieces was relatively brief and they are likely to have been lost quite soon after production and distribution. By the mid seventeenth century the farthing tokens of James I and Charles I had become discredited by over-issue and counterfeiting, and had ceased to be produced and used.
