World Tokens

St Lucia, Coaling Tokens, CASTRIES, Barnard, Peter & Co, uniface oval brass Shilling by Neal, name around value, 48 x 20mm, 9.47g (Lyall 457, this piece illustrated; Devaux type 6, this piece illustrated; Prid. 1, this piece illustrated). Some spotting and staining, otherwise very fine, of the highest rarity; believed the only known specimen £400-600

Provenance: J.K. McDowell Collection, Coin Galleries Mailbid Sale, 15 November 1989 (1221, part).

Barnard, Peter & Co, established 1879, proprietors Sam Barnard and William Peter, dissolved 1891