The Dolphin

This trade token, worth a farthing, was issued for a business at the sign of the Dolphin, in Temple Bar within, City of London.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 3072; Obv inscription: AT.THE.DOLPHIN (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = A dolphin (in field); Rev inscription: WITHIN.TEMPLE.BARR (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = W.M.W. (triad of initials in Roman capitals, in field).

See also, 96.66/481, in the museum collection, and token numbers 7716 and 7717 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. 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.