World Tokens

Danish West Indies, Coaling Tokens, West Indian Co, uniface brass daytime check, 1920, legend, 24mm, 5.05g (Sømod 24.703; Lyall 10; Lyall Sale 842). Extremely fine £50-70

The West Indian Co, established in Copenhagen in 1912 as an offshoot of Det Østasiatiske Kompagni, took over the interests of the latter firm in 1915. These tallies were in use from 1920 until the late 1940s