The Queen's Head Tavern

This trade token, worth a farthing, was issued at the Queen's Head tavern, at Holborn Conduit.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 1413; Obv inscription: QVEEN'S.HEAD.TAVERNE (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = Full-faced bust of Queen Elizabeth (in field); Rev inscription: AT.HOLBORNE.COVNDID (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = E.E.H. (triad of initials in Roman capitals, in field).

See also token number 7126 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).