The Red Lion

This trade token, worth a farthing, was issued for a business at the sign of the Red Lion, in Little Eastcheap (now Eastcheap).

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 1734; Obv inscription: AT.THE.RED.LION.IN (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = A lion rampant (in field); Rev inscription: LITTLE.EAST.CHEAP (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = I.S.V. (triad of initials in Roman capitals, in field).

See also token number 7259 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. Little Eastcheap, ran from Botolph Lane to Fish Street Hill (Rocque, 1746 cited in Henry A. Harben, A dictionary of London (London, 1918). The street seems to have been in existence between 1564-1831, at which time it was subsumed in to Eastcheap, see Henry A. Harben, A dictionary of London (London, 1918).