Post-Medieval — Mid 17th century; 1648-1673; 1665
The Swan
Mark Rider issued this trade token, worth a half penny, for his business at the sign of the Swan, in Charing Cross, Middlesex.
Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 551; Obv inscription: MARKE.RIDER.AT.THE.SWAN (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = A swan holding grapes (in field); Rev inscription: A.GAINST.THE.MEWES.1665 (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = HIS / HALFE / PENNY (in three lines of Roman capitals, in field).
A notice in the London Gazette, No. 234, February 10-13, 1667, "These are to give notice, that the Post-house is removed from the Swan, near Charing-Cross, to the Red Lyon over against the meuse-gate", as cited in Boyne (1889), p. 558, may refer to this token and to token NN16657 in the museum collection. 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. 303.
- Category:
- Post-Medieval
- Object ID:
- 96.66/303
- Object name:
- The Swan
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- Rider, Mark
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- Related places:
Middlesex; Charing Cross [next to the Mews], City of Westminster, London [City of Westminster], City of Westminster
- Production date:
- mid 17th century; 1648-1673; 1665
- Material:
copper alloy
- Measurements/duration:
- DM 20 mm, WT 3.28 g
- Part of:
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- On display:
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- Record quality:
- 80%
- Part of this object:
- —
- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
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