The Swan Tavern

This trade token, worth a farthing, was issued at the Swan tavern, in Old Fish Street (now Knightrider Street).

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 2141; Obv inscription: AT.THE.SWAN.TAVERNE (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = A swan (in field); Rev inscription: IN.OVLD.FISH.STREET (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = I.A.M. (triad of initials in Roman capitals, in field).

The issuer was 'Mr John Marshall at the Swan in Old Fish Street, vintner, in churchwardens' accounts of St Nicholas Cole Abbey 1632-50 (Kenneth Rogers, 'On some issuers of seventeenth-century London tokens whose names were not known to Boyne and WIlliamson', NC, 5th series 8 (1928), p.p. 87). See also, NN18015 - NN18016 and NN18018, in the musuem collection, for other examples of this and similar tokens from this issuer. See also token number 7450 in the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, 59, The Norweb Collection: Tokens of the British Isles 1575-1750, Part VII - City of London. Old Fish Street (now Knightrider Street), lay in Bread Street Ward and Queenhithe Ward, in the City of London.