The St. Alban

George Carter issued this trade token, worth a half penny, for his business at the sign of St Alban, in St Alban's Street, near St James Market, Middlesex.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 2444; Obv inscription: GEORG. CARTER. AT. YE. ST. ALBAN (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = St Alban standing near an altar (in field); Rev inscription: IN. ST / ALBANS / STREET / NEERE. ST / IAMES. / MARKET (in six lines of Roman capitals, in field).

See also token number 8876 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, and, Bryant Lillywhite, London Coffee Houses (London, 1963), no. 1119. St Alban's Street lies in St James' Westminster, having formerly been part of Westminster, Middlesex.