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St Lucia, Coaling token, Barnard Sons and Co., in brass (24mm)(Lyall 461), another with tiny pellet above and below a large B (Lyall 462). Very fine and rare. (2)
Estimate $100
Passed in
St Lucia, coaling token, Minvielle and Chastenet, in brass (27mm) D in zig zag border (Lyall 477). Nearly extremely fine and rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $200
Trinidad, J.G. D'Ade & Co, farthing in copper (Pr.6; Lyall 498; Rulau 14) undated but circa 1865. Some dirt adhering and small stain on N of one, otherwise good very fine and very rare, a classic true token of the British West Indies.
Estimate $800
SOLD $650
Trinidad, H.E. Rapseys half stampee (= 1/2d or 1ct) Port of Spain token in copper (Pr.5; Lyall 508), undated but circa 1861. Red and brown uncirculated and extremely rare thus, perhaps the finest known apart from the British Museum's Freudenthal specimen obtained in 1870.
Estimate $700
SOLD $800
Trinidad, H.E. Rapseys half stampee, Port of Spain token in copper, countermarked with F.D. (Francois Declos) a barber in Port of Spain to revalue half stampee to one stampee (Lyall 501). Nearly very fine and extremely rare, only two examples known to Lyall.
Estimate $400
SOLD $320
Trinidad, H.E.Rapsey, Port of Spain, half stampee in copper (27mm)(Lyall 508), Perira's Discount card tokens (4) in imitation of 4, 3, 2 and 1 escudos for 15, 10, 5, and 2 percent saved; Tucker's Valley Estate, one rod, uniface in brass (24mm)(Lyall 515). Fair - very fine. (6)
Estimate $200
SOLD $130