Checks, Discount, & Special Purpose Tokens - General
Lot 4738 SESSION 17 (9.30AM FRIDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER) Checks, Discount, & Special Purpose Tokens - General Is
Estimate $150
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SOLD $90
(NELSON), uncertain issue, in brass (30.5mm), 'D.M Co.' countermarked on both sides. Fine.
In referring to the zinc tokens of Nelson, Sutherland noted that the issues were used as currency checks between traders of specific goods. This and the following item were likely to have had a similar function.
Ex G.C.Heyde Collection and Downies Australian Coin Auctions, Auction 300, 28-30 October 2008 (lot 747), with tickets.
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Lot 4736
NELSON, John Tregea Tramway Co., checkpiece in zinc (31mm), with countermark 'Tregea' (S.163; A.1227, Chitty ...
Estimate $350
Lot 4737
NELSON, anonymous, in zinc (26mm), with central hole, either blank or with traces of what ...
Estimate $180
Lot 4738 This lot
(NELSON), uncertain issue, in brass (30.5mm), 'D.M Co.' countermarked on both sides. Fine.
Estimate $150
Lot 4739
(NELSON), uncertain issue, in brass (25.5mm), 'G' countermarked on single side. Fine.
Estimate $120
Lot 4740
N.Z.N.A.C. (New Zealand National Airways Corporation), c1940s, tool check, uniface, struck in aluminium (32mm), pierced ...
Estimate $300