Auction Catalogue
Danish West Indies, Merchant Tokens, Louis Delinois, uniface brass 5 Cents, c. 1887, legend around value with squat 5, 26mm, 4.57g (Sømod 4617; Higgie 410; Lyall Sale 856); uniface brass 3 Cents, c. 1887, similar, 22mm, 3.27g (Sømod 4618; Higgie 409; Lyall Sale 855) [2]. First very fine but with dull surface, second good fine but with some verdigris on edge £60-80
First only illustrated. Louis Jean Pericles Delinois (b. Haiti), proprietor of a coffee and cocoa plantation on St John, tavern keeper and butcher, Charlotte Amalie
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