British West Indies - Tokens
Lot 1399 SESSION 6 (9.30AM WEDNESDAY 1ST APRIL) British West Indies - Tokens
Estimate $700
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $800
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.
Ex Ray Byrne (lot 1183) and R.J. Ford (lot 696) Collections, Noble Numismatics Sale 61b (W.J. Noble Collection) (lot 1371), Mark E. Freehill Collection.
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