Description 17TH CENTURY LONDON TOKEN. Thomas Day Halfpenny, Holborn Bridge. Copper, 1.57g, 19.5mm. Grade: Fine-gFine. D 1395. This token comes with an old ticket 17/6 At the Black Swan. Which was a coaching Inn with services especially to the west country, this Inn was mentioned in the Diary of Samuel Pepys on Sunday 9th August 1668, "(Lord’s day). Up, and walked to Holborne, where got John Powell’s coach at the Black Swan, and he attended me at St. James’s," Holborn bridge spanned the Fleet Ditch at Holborn street in the ward of Farringdon without, and was a major westward thoroughfare in the 17th century. The Inn was situated between Fetter Lane and Barnard's Inn. In modern London in the boroughs of Camden and the City of Westminster, (part of the West End).
