The Plough

This trade token, worth a farthing, was issued for business at the sign of the Plough, on Wapping Wall, Middlesex.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 3339; Obv inscription: AT.THE.PLOW.ON (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = A plough (in field); Rev inscription: WAPING.WALL.1651 (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = M.A.S. (triad of initials in Roman capitals, in field).

See also, NN19530, in the museum collection, and token number 8565 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 Wall runs north-east of Garnet Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, it was previously part of Stepney, Middlesex.