The Wheatsheaf

Francis Stone, a mealman (someone who deals in meal crops, such as oats), issued this trade token, worth a farthing, for his business in Temple bar without, Middlesex.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 3069; Obv inscription: FRANCIS.STONE (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = MEAL / MAN (in two lines of Roman capitals); Rev inscription: WITHOVT.TEMPLE.BARR (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = A wheatsheaf (in field).

See also token number 9005 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. Temple Bar formed a divisional bar between the ward of Farringdon, in the City of London, and Westminster, Middlesex; the area that lay in Westminster, now lies in the City of Westminster.