The Three Sugar Loaves

Edward Apthorp issued this trade token, worth a farthing, for his business at Temple Bar without, Middlesex.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 3030; Obv inscription: EDWARD.APTHORP (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = Three sugar-loaves (in field); Rev inscription: WITH.OVT.TEMPLE.BAR (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = E.A (in field, in Roman capitals).

See also token number 8997 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. Temple Bar formed a divisional bar between the ward of Farringdon, in the City of London, and Westminster, Middlesex; the area that lay in Westminster, now lies in the City of Westminster.