The Three Goat's Head

This trade token, worth a farthing, was issued for a business at the sign of the Three Goats' Heads, in Thames Street (now Upper and Lower Thames Street).

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 3076; Obv inscription: AT.THE.3.GOATS.HEAD (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = Three goats' heads (in field); Rev inscription: IN.THAMS.STREET (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = H.A and a dog (initials in Roman capitals below sign, in field).

See also, A25823, in the museum collection, and token number 7742 in the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, 59, The Norweb Collection: Tokens of the British Isles 1575-1750, Part VII - City of London. Thames Street, now Upper Thames Street and Lower Thames Street, lay within Tower Ward, Billingsgate Ward, Bridge Ward Within (now Bridge Ward), Dowgate Ward, Vintry Ward, Queenhithe Ward and Castle Baynard Ward, City of London.