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Richard Bryan issued this trade token, worth a half penny, for his business at St Katherine's Mill Bridge, Middlesex.

Boyne & Williamson (1889) reference London number 2596; Obv inscription: RICHARD.BRYAN.1667 (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = HIS / HALF / PENY (in three lines of Roman capitals, in field); Rev inscription: AT.ST.KATHERNS.MIL.BRIDG (around field, in Roman capitals) Device = R.M.B. (triad of initials in Roman capitals, in field).

See also, N2104, in the museum collection, and token number 8420 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 Mill lay in Stepney, middlesex; the area now lies in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.