The Rose Tavern

Mary Long issued this trade token, worth a half penny, for her business, the Rose tavern, in Russell Street, Middlesex.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 2434; Obv inscription: MARY.LONG.IN.RVSSELL (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = A rose on a stalk (in field); Rev inscription: STREET.IN.COVENT.GARDEN (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = HER / HALFE / PENNY / M.L (in four lines of Roman capitals, in field).

See also token number 8874 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, and Bryant Lillywhite, London Coffee Houses (London, 1963), no. 756. Russell Street, runs east off Covent Garden in the City of Westminster, having formerly been in Westminster, Middlesex.