World Tokens

Danish West Indies, Communion Tokens, ST JOHNS, Emmaus Church, oval hardwood token, emmaus, rev. unreadable, 43 x 24mm, 2.63g (Burzinski 2444, this piece). Fine but the ink inscription weak, of the highest rarity and in all probability the only recorded specimen £500-600

Provenance: L.M. Burzinski Collection; bt D. Parker November 2001.

The Emmaus Moravian Church, Coral Bay, said to be haunted, stands next to the Caroline Estate plantation, the site of a 1733 slave revolt that resulted in the murder of the plantation owner and his 12-year-old daughter