The Blue Anchor

This trade token, worth a farthing, was issued for a business at the sign of the Blue Anchor, at Wapping Old Stairs, Middlesex.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 3275; Obv inscription: THE.BLOW.ANKER.AT (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = An anchor (in field); Rev inscription: WAPING.OVLD.STARES (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = I.I.B. / 58 (in two lines of Roman capitals, in field).

See also token number 8558 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. Wapping Old Stairs, run off East Smithfield, down to the Thames foreshore, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, the area was previously part of Stepney, Middlesex.