The Falcon

This trade token, worth a farthing, was issued for a business at the sign of the Falcon, in Shoreditch (now Shoreditch High Street), Middlesex.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 2815; Obv inscription: AT.THE.FAVLCON (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = A falcon (in field); Rev inscription: IN.SHOREDICHE (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = I.S.E. (triad of initials in Roman capitals).

See also token number 8161 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. Shoreditch, now Shoreditch High Street, lay in the parish of St Leonard Shoreditch, in Holborn, Middlesex; the area is now part of the London Borough of Hackney.