Post-Medieval — Mid 17th century; 1648-1673
The King's Head
Jeremiah Green issued this trade token, worth a half penny, for his business at the King's Head tavern in Clare Market (modern area between Clare Market and Houghton Street), Middlesex.
Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 646; Obv inscription: IEREMIAH.GREEN.AT.YE (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = Bust of Charles II crowned (in field); Rev inscription: KINGS.HEAD.IN.CLAR.MARKET (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = HIS / HALFE / PENY / I.A.G. (in four lines of Roman capitals, with triad of initials as bottom.
See also 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. 335. Clare Market was named after John Holles, second Earl of Clare who established a small food market at Clement's Inn Fields in 1657, the market area spread over a wider area in time, with butchers' and grocers' shops covering many streets (Burn, 1885, p.69-70). The area lies in the City of Westminster, having formerly been part of Westminster, Middlesex.
- Category:
- Post-Medieval
- Object ID:
- 96.66/335
- Object name:
- The King's Head
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- Green, Jeremiah
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- Related places:
Middlesex; Clare Market, City of Westminster, London [City of Westminster], City of Westminster
- Production date:
- mid 17th century; 1648-1673
- Material:
copper alloy
- Measurements/duration:
- DM 21 mm, WT 1.15 g
- Part of:
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- On display:
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- Record quality:
- 80%
- Part of this object:
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- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
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