The Man in the Moon

This trade token, worth a farthing, for his business at the sign of the Man on the Moon, in Wapping, Middlesex.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 3301; Obv inscription: AT.THE.MAN.IN.THE (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = A man standing within a crescent moon (in field); Rev inscription: MOVN.IN.WAPING.1652 (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = W.E / GAVNT (in two lines of Roman capitals, in field).

See also, N2149 and 96.66/1241, in the museum collection, and token number 8533 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 lies in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, having formerly been part of Stepney, Middlesex.