The Swan with Two Necks

This trade token, worth a farthing, was issued for a business at the sign of the Swan With Two Necks, at Little Somer's Key.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 2920; Obv inscription: SWAN.WITH.2.NECKS (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = A swan with two necks (in field); Rev inscription: AT.LITTLE.SOMERS.KEY [overstruck on BOSS.ALLEY] (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = XXX over M (in field, initial in Roman capital).

See also, NN19222, in the museum collection. Little 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).