The Wheatsheaf

Nicholas Smith issued this trade token, worth a half penny, at his premises in Baldwyn's Garden (near Gray's Inn Lane, now Gray's Inn Road), Middlesex.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 106; Obv inscription: NICHOLAS.SMITH.1666 (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = A wheatsheaf (in field); Rev inscription: IN.BALDWYNS.GARDEN (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = N.H.S ½ (triad of initials in Roman capitals above ½, in field).

See also token number 7999 in the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, 62, The Norweb Collection: Tokens of the British Isles 1575-1750, Part VIII - Middlesex and Uncertain Pieces, and J. H. Burn, A Descriptive Catalogue of the London Traders, Tavern, and Coffee-house Tokens current in the Seventeenth Century, presented to the Corporation Library by Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy, 2nd ed. (London, 1855), no. 103. Baldwyn's Garden, (near Gray's Inn Lane, now Gray's Inn Road) lay in Holborn, Middlesex; the area now lies in the London Borough of Camden.