BURN, Jacob Henry (1794-1869). A Descriptive Catalogue of the London Traders, Tavern, and Coffee-House Tokens Current in the Seventeenth Century; Presented to the Corporation Library by Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy Citizen and Distiller.
“The necessitye of these small moneys did appeare here with us in England, where everie chandler, tapster, vintner, and others made tokens of lead and brasse for half-pence, and at Bristol by the late queenes authoritie were made of copper, with a ship on the one side, and C.B. on the other side signifying CIVITAS BRISTOLL…”
4 engraved plates (Frontispiece detached but present).
Interior: Spotting and foxing in places throughout, some closed tearing to blank margins.
Exterior: Publisher’s dark brown/black cloth tooled in blind, spine re-backed and relayed on to green cloth (a neat repair), wear to cloth in general.
8vo. [London], Printed for the use of members of the Corporation of the City of London, 1855.
Coffee house tokens were issued in the 17th century for uses within establishments to pay for coffee and other goods, owing to the shortage of small change at the time post English Civil War. They had the name of the establishment engraved on the coin. This book represents an interesting account of businesses operating in London at the time or just after the Great Fire of London and details of the coin issued per establishment.
Fairly scarce.
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