World Tokens

Jamaica, Checks, Tickets and Tokens, KINGSTON, Myrtle Bank Hotel, uniface brass Dollar, c. 1870-80, name above value, 23mm, 3.83g (Lyall 157, this piece; Prid. –; Byrne 868, this piece). Tarnished, otherwise about very fine, of the highest rarity; perhaps the only known specimen £300-400

Provenance: R.A. Byrne Collection, Jess Peters Auction 78 (Los Angeles), 13-14 June 1975, lot 868.

Myrtle Bank Hotel, built by James Gall (1834-1900) in 1870 and named after his grandfather’s residence in Edinburgh