The Three Pigeons

This trade token, worth a farthing, was issued for a business at the sign of the Three Pidgeons, in Tothill Street, Westminster.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 3160; Obv inscription: AT.THE.3.PIDGENS (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = Three birds (in field); Rev inscription: IN.TVTTLE.STREETE (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = I.I.F. (triad of initials in Roman capitals, in field).

See also, A16592 and NN19393, in the museum collection, and token number 9047 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. Tothill Street lay in Westminster, Middlesex; it now lies in the City of Westminster, lying on the eastern end of Petty France.