The Blue Anchor

Thoas Watts issued this trade token, worth a half penny, for his business at the sign of the Blue Anchor, in St John Street.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 2587; Obv inscription: THO.WATTS.AT.THE.BLEW (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = An anchor (in field); Rev inscription: ANCHOR.IN.ST.IOHN.STREET (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = HIS / HALF / PENY (in three lines of Roman capitals, in field).

See also token number 7973 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. St John Street ran from the parish of Clerkenwell, Middlesex to the ward of Farringdon Without, in the City of London, the southern end in the City of London, was demolished in the 19th century, see Henry A. Harben, A Dictionary of London (London, 1918), p.325.