The Red Cow

Matthew Bayley, issued this trade token, worth a half penny, for his business, at the Red Cow tavern, near Holborn Conduit.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 1366; Obv inscription: MATT. BAYLY. AT. YE. RED. COW (around field, in roman capitals) Device = A cow (in field); Rev inscription: NEAR.HOLBORN.CONDVIT (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = M.T.B. / ½ (triad of initials in Roman capitals with ½ below, in field).

See also token number 7127 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. 'Holborn Conduit lay, at the junction of Cow Lane, Cock Lane and Snow Hill, in Farringdon Ward Without, later called Lamb's Conduit' (John Strype, ed. A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, 1720, I. iii. 283), it was taken down in 1746, see Henry A. Harben, A dictionary of London (London, 1918).