The popular name for a series of coins issued for the Bermuda Islands early in the seventeenth century.

It is stated that in 1515 a Spanish vessel commanded by Juan Bermudez, and containing a cargo of hogs, was wrecked on one of these islands, while on its way to Cuba. In 1609 George Somers was appointed Governor of the Colony of Virginia, and on liis voyage from England he was cast away on the Bermudas, where he found a large number of wild hogs. He victualled a vessel with them, proceeding later to Virginia. In the same year. 1609, a charter was granted to the Bermuda Company by .lames I, and it is assumed that from about 1616 to 1624 the first coins consisting of copper shillings, six-pences, three-penees, and two-penees were struck.

These pieces have on one side the figure of a hog, with the inscription SOMMER ISLANDS, and on the reverse a galleon. See Numismatic Chronicle,/i>, 1883 (p. 117), and Crosby (pp. 17, 18).