Ceylon, Ceylon Company Ltd., coffee grinding and sales tokens (3), obv. CEYLON COMPANT LIMITED *, around an elephant, rev. ST SEBASTIAN MILLS * around C, task value 9d, copper, 31mm; similar but rev. B, task value 4 1/2d, 27mm; similar but rev. A, task value 2 1/4d, 19mm (Prid. 17, 18, 19; Ford 265) [3]. All good very fine or better, the first two cleaned in the past £60-£80

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

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Provenance: first two bt. D. Vorley, 1987; last bt. Format of Birmingham, 1987

The company was established in 1863 to take over the extremely successful enterprises of G. and M. Wormes of 19 Baillie Street, Colombo (1842-1862). The tokens date to about 1866