The Queen's Head

Stephen Lock issued this trade token, worth a half penny, for his business at Somer's Key (now Billingsgate Market).

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 2916; Obv inscription: STEPHEN.LOCK.AT.SVMMERS (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = A queen's head (in field); Rev inscription: KEY.NEAR.BILLINSGATE.68 (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = HIS / HALFE / PENY / S.A.L. (in four lines of Roman capitals with triad of initials as bottom, in field).

Somer's Key lay on the south side of Thames Street (now Lower Thames Street), it later became Great Somer's Quay, and Dark House Lane, the site is now occupied by Billingsgate Market, in Billingsgate Ward, City of London, see Henry A. Harben, A Dictionary of London (London, 1918).