The Lord Craven

Arthur Hall issued this trade token, worth a half penny, for his business at a premises under the sign of Lord Craven, in Bishopsgate without, Bishopsgate Ward, City of London.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 294; Obv inscription: ARTHVR / HALL. AT / YE. SINE. OF / MY. LORD / CRAVEN (in five lines of Roman capitals, in field); Rev inscription: WITHOVT.BISHOPS.GATE (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = HIS / HALF / PENY (in three lines of Roman capitals, in field).

Lord Craven was , a nobleman and crucial personality in the wake of the Great Fire of London. There is another similar token in the museum collection, N2036. See also token numbers 6647 and 6648 in the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, 59, The Norweb Collection: Tokens of the British Isles 1575-1750, Part VII - City of London 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. 189.