Comments on: Aldgate & Aldersgate Tavern Tokens https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/28/aldgate-aldersgate-tavern-tokens/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:57:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: John Andrew https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/28/aldgate-aldersgate-tavern-tokens/#comment-1364870 Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:57:28 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=122774#comment-1364870 Hello, I am looking for the John Lisle tavern tokens to purchase (Farthing & Halfpenny w/ Morris dancers & inscription, “on the three” as pictured on your page). I am in Canada, so it is not easy to connect with an auction where they might be sold. Do you or do you know someone who deals in this kind of thing?. I am not a collector but a descendant of John Lisle and Lisa wife Alice.

Sincere Thanks,
John

]]> By: Valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/28/aldgate-aldersgate-tavern-tokens/#comment-601829 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 13:45:01 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=122774#comment-601829 Very interesting and great that so many of these little tokens survived. Valerie

]]> By: Philip Mernick https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/28/aldgate-aldersgate-tavern-tokens/#comment-601684 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 10:46:48 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=122774#comment-601684 Farthings had last been issued by “The Mint (in the Tower of London)” during the reign of Edward VI but being silver were too small, by then, to be viable. Elizabeth I tried to get round the problem by issuing silver three farthing coins but James I (and later his son Charles I) sold patents to issue copper farthings which were made somewhere in London but not at The Mint. It was these patents that Parliament cancelled in 1642 leaving a void filled by the private issues.
Official copper farthings (struck on blanks imported from Sweden) were not issued until 1672. That is why the private tokens continued for so long after the 1660 restoration of the monarchy.
Philip Mernick

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