World Tokens

Jamaica, Checks, Tickets and Tokens, NEW RAMBLE, Leo George Silvera, bracteate copper Threepence, c. 1900, legend around value, 24mm, 2.25g (Lyall 158, this piece; Prid. –; Doty/Kleeberg/Leonard p.233, fig. 15, this piece; Byrne 870, this piece). A few spots of verdigris on the back, otherwise 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 870.

Leopold George Silvera (c. 1864-1916), shopkeeper, Idlewild, near Oracabessa, acquired the New Ramble estate in 1896 and was a JP in 1901