World Tokens

Danish West Indies, Coaling Tokens, Royal Mail Steam Packet Co, uniface brass One Cent, legend around value, 28mm, 2.77g (Sømod 24.705; Lyall 1; Lyall Sale 836). Some surface corrosion, otherwise better than fine, of the highest rarity; perhaps only one other specimen recorded £500-1,000

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Co, incorporated in 1839, set up a coaling station in St Thomas in 1841; coaling on the island had probably ceased before 1885, by which time the company had moved its local headquarters to Barbados