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Thomas Michael issued this trade token, worth a farthing, for his business in Vere Street, Clare Market, Middlesex.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 3266; Obv inscription: THOMAS.MICHEL.IN.VERE (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = T.M.M. (triad of initials in Roman capitals, in field); Rev inscription: STREETE.NEW.MARKET (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = T.M.M. (triad of initials in Roman capitals, in field).

See also, NN19474, in the museum collection, and token number 9051 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. Vere Street, lay in the neighbourhood of Clare Market. Clare Market was named after John Holles, second Earl of Clare who established a small food market at Clement's Inn Fields in 1657, the market area spread over a wider area in time, with butchers' and grocers' shops covering many streets, J. H. Burn, A Descriptive Catalogue of the London Traders, Tavern, and Coffee-house Tokens current in the Seventeenth Century, presented to the Corporation Library by Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy, 2nd ed. (London, 1855), p. 69-70. The area lies in the City of Westminster, having formerly been part of Westminster, Middlesex.