The Wheatsheaf

Thomas Railton, a baker, issued this trade token, worth a farthing, for his business in White Horse Street (now White Horse Road and Cble Street), in Stepney, Middlesex.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 3497; Obv inscription: THOMAS.RAILTON.BAKER (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = A wheatsheaf (in field); Rev inscription: IN.WHITHORS.STREETE (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = A pair of scales (in field).

See also token number 8581 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. White Horse Street (now White Horse Road and Cable Street), lay in Stepney, Middlesex; the modern roads lie in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.