Gibraltar, Circulo El Progreso, presumed a currency token valued at 4 Pence, CIRCULO EL PROGRESO around 4, rev. similar, cupro-nickel, edge grained, 20mm (Lyall 1215). Good fine, perhaps better, extremely rare, perhaps the only recorded specimen £100-£150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, World Tokens, the Property of a North Country Collector.

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bt. in Gibraltar, 1989, This specimen was found in a box of ‘foreign’ coins culled over many years from the till of a retail chemist shop in Gibraltar

The Circulo el Progreso was described as ‘an amateur recreative lyric society’ who met on Main Street from at least 1889 to 1892