THE article written by Mark Page about the alternative form of cash currency known as Trade Tokens (Nostalgia January 29) has elicited a fair amount of response. The Trade Token, valued at one half-penny, issued by “Richard Lucas of Wickham, 1670”, bearing a lion rampant and the inscription “Rather dead than disloyal” was first unearthed at Bowerdean, High Wycombe in 1940. Until the early 1920s Bowerdean was agricultural land, with three farms in its vicinity - Birch’s, Plaistowe’s and Phelp’s. There was also a wooded area, which is still known as Lucas Wood, perhaps named in the 17th century after Richard Lucas.