World Tokens

Curaçao, WILLEMSTAD, Curaçao Trading Co, uniface zinc coaling check, c. 1900, initials, 19mm, 1.59g (Scholten 1412); Jesurun & Co, German silver Stuiver [1874], legend, rev. value, 15mm, 1.16g/6h (Scholten 1408); Leyba & Co, German silver Stuiver, c. 1880, legend, rev. value, 15mm, 1.20g/6h (Scholten 1410); S.E.L. Maduro & Sons, a Leyba & Co German silver Stuiver, obv. countermarked with c, 15mm, 1.12g/6h (Scholten 1410b); J.J. Naär, German silver Stuiver [1874], legend, rev. value, 15mm, 1.16g/6h (Scholten 1409); J.R.P., a uniface white metal check or coaling tally, j.r.p. above 1, 21.5mm, 3.34g (Scholten –; Rulau –); Vereeniging Numismatica Curaçao, a cut quarter-segment of a Wilhelmina, Two-and-a-Half Gulden, 1944, rev. countermarked vncx in indent, 6.29g (Rulau 40); Vereeniging Numismatica Curaçao, 1993, silver medalet, arms, rev. caduceus and plant [modelled on the 1821 1 Reaal], 18mm, 2.20g (Rulau 42); together with a pre-Columbian piece of shell money, said to belong to the ‘Aruacs’ tribe, approx. 12mm with a central hole [9]. Fourth fine and rare, last two extremely fine, others in varied state £80-100

Provenance: Second, third and fifth bt J. Schulman July 1965; fourth Jess Peters Auction 90, 29 November 1977, lot 407; sixth, seventh and eighth Laurens Schulman Auction (Bussum), 14-15 November 1994, lot 905; last bt J.M. Odor 1977.

Jesurun & Co, proprietor Jacob Abraham Jesurun, recorded as one of the two richest Jews in Curaçao in 1862, issued his tokens in 1874 and they were redeemed in November 1875 (Leonard, p.228). Samuel Elias Levy Maduro (1814-83), in business in Willemstad from 1837. Jacob Jeosuah Naär owned several plantations and ran a snuff factory; his tokens, also isued in 1874, were redeemed in December 1875 (Leonard, p.228)