The Three Tuns

Henry Ingersole issued this trade token, worth a half penny, for his business at the Three Tuns tavern in Cloth Fair.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 684; Obv inscription: HENRY.INGERSOLE.AT.YE.3 (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = Three tuns (in field); Rev inscription: TVNNES.IN.CLOATH.FAIRE (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = HIS / HALFE / PENNY / 1668 (in four lines of Roman capitals, in field)

There is also a token issued by a Henry Ingersole that depicts the Bakers' Arms. So it is likely that either Henry Ingersole became a vintner after being a baker, or his son was a baker, see NN16707 in the museum collection 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. 350 and 351. See also token number 6792 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. Cloth Fair lies in the ward of Farringdon Without, in the City of London.