The Blue Boar

Abraham Hudson, an apothecary, issued this trade token, worth a half penny, for his business in Chancery Lane, Middlesex.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 506; Obv inscription: ABRA. HVDSON. APOTHECARY. AT (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = The Apothecaries' Arms (in field); Rev inscription: THE. BLEW. BOAR. IN. CHANCERY. LANE (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = A boar (in field).

The arms of the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries are: Azure, Apollo, the inventor of physic, proper with his head radiant holding in his left hand a bow and in his right hand an arrow, or supplanting a serpent argent (J. Bromley, The Armorial Bearings of the Guilds of London: a record of the heraldry of the surviving companies with historical notes; with...[illustrations] by Heather Child...(London, 1960). See also J. H. Burn, 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, 2nd ed. (London, 1855), no. 293. Chancery Lane lies within the London boroughs of Camden, City of Westminster and City of London, in the ward of Farringdon Without, having formerly lain across, Holborn and Westminster in Middlesex, and the ward of Farringdon Without, in the City of London.