The Coopers' Arms

Marke Heynes issued this trade token, worth a half penny, for his business in St Katherine's Court, Middlesex.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 2615; Obv inscription: MARKE.HEYNES.IN (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = HIS / HALF / PENY (in three lines of Roman capitals, in field); Rev inscription: S.KATHERNS.COVRT (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = The Coopers' arms (in field).

The arms of the Worshipful Company of Coopers are: Gyronny of eight gules and sable, on a chevron between three annulets or a royne between two broad axes azure, a chief vert thereon three lilies argent (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 8404 in the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, 62, The Norweb Collection: Tokens of the British Isles 1575-1750, Part VIII - Middlesex and Uncertain Pieces. St Katherine's Court, lay in Stepney, Middlesex, in the area now covered by St Katherine's Docks, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.