The Hat

Ralph Packman issued this trade token, worth a farthing, for his business in Newgate Without.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 2038; Obv inscription: RALPH.PACKMAN (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = The Merchant Tailors' arms (in field); Rev inscription: WITHOVT.NEWGAT (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = R.I.P. and a hat (triad of initials in Roman capitals above sign, in field).

See also, NN17933, in the museum collection and token numbers 7399a and 7399b 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. The arms of the Worshipful company of Merchant Tailors are: Argent a pavilion imperial purple garnished or lines ermine between two mantles also imperial purple lined ermine, on a chief azure a lion passant guardant (J. Bromley, The Armorial Bearings of the Guilds of London: a record of the heraldry of the surviving companies with historical notes; with...[illustrations] by Heather Child...(London, 1960). Newgate Without was a ward which lay outside the Roman walls of the City of London, it later became part of the ward of Farringdon Without, in the City of London.