The Adam and Eve

This trade token worth a farthing, was issued for a business at the sign of Adam and Eve (Fruiterers' Arms), in Thames Street (now Upper Thames Street and Lower Thames Street).

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 3078; Obv insciption: AT.THE.ADAM.AND.EVE (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = The Fruiterers' arms (in field); Rev inscription: IN.THAMES.STREETE (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = I.S.B. (triad of initials in Roman capitals, in field).

The arms of the Worshipful Company of Fruiterers are: Azure on a mount vert the tree of Paradise, environed with a serpent, between Adam dexter and Eve sinister, all proper (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 token number 7727 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. Thames Street, now Upper Thames Street and Lower Thames Street, lay within Tower Ward, Billingsgate Ward, Bridge Ward Within (now Bridge Ward), Dowgate Ward, Vintry Ward, Queenhithe Ward and Castle Baynard Ward, City of London.