The Dagger

This trade token, worth a farthing, was issued for a business at the sign of the Dagger, in Peter Street, New Market (Clare Market), Middlesex.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 2208; Obv inscription: AT.THE.DAGER.IN (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = A dagger (in field); Rev inscription: PEETER.STREETE (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = G.M.R. (triad of initials in Roman capitals, in field).

See also token number 8850 in the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, 62, The Norweb Collection: Tokens of the British Isles 1575-1750, Part VIII - Middlesex and Uncertain Pieces. Clare Market (also known as New Market) was named after John Holles, second Earl of Clare who established a small food market at Clement's Inn Fields in 1657, the market area spread over a wider area in time, with butchers' and grocers' shops covering many streets, 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), p. 69-70. The area lies in the City of Westminster, having formerly been part of Westminster, Middlesex.