The Sugar Loaf

This trade token, worth a farthing, was issued for a business at the sign of the Sugar Loaf, in Thames Street (now Upper Thames Street and Lower Thames Street).

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 3077; Obv inscription: AT.THE.SHVGER.LOFE (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = The Grocers' arms (in field); Rev inscription: IN.THAMES.STREETE (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = G.K.B. (triad of initials in Roman capitals, in field).

The arms of the Worshipful Company of Grocers are: Argent a chevron Gules between nine cloves Sable (J. Bromley, The Armorial Bearings of the Guilds of London: a record of the heraldry of the surviving companies with historical notes; with...[illustrations] by Heather Child...(London, 1960). See also token number 7740 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. Thames Street, now Upper Thames Street and Lower Thames Street, lay within Tower Ward, Billingsgate Ward, Bridge Ward Within (now Bridge Ward), Dowgate Ward, Vintry Ward, Queenhithe Ward and Castle Baynard Ward, City of London.