British Coins and Tokens

LONDON, St Paul’s, Sir Paul Pindar, 1756, an openwork uniface brass badge, crude facing bust, 34mm, 16.69g (W –; D & W –; cf. DNW 143, 30). Very fine and very rare £50-£70

F.W. Yeates Collection; F.S. Cokayne Collection [from Baldwin August 1923]; D. Young Collection [from S.H. Monks June 2009]

This badge is believed to be related to the Sir Paul Pindar’s Head tavern which flourished in the last third of the eighteenth century. Sir Paul Pindar (1565-1650, b. Wellingborough) was a London merchant and member of the Turkey Company who, in 1611, had been appointed Ambassador to the Grand Seignior at Constantinople. The timber-frame of his house in Bishopsgate Street Without was built in 1599-1600 and - when demolished to facilitate the expansion of Liverpool Street Station - was presented to the Victoria and Albert Museum.