World Tokens

Turks & Caicos Islands, COCKBURN HARBOUR, J.N. Reynolds, cast brass Twelve-and-a-Half Cents, deliver bearer…in value j.n. reynolds around numeral both sides, 21mm, 5.94g/6h (Lyall 518; Prid. Jamaica –; Ford –; Tankersley –). Obverse fine, reverse partly flat, fair, extremely rare; only two specimens known £300-500

Provenance: Bt C. Plante February 1993.

John Ney Reynolds (†1890, aged c. 65) was involved in the Newfoundland lumber trade before migrating to Grand Turk island, where he was in business as a salt raker and exporter from c. 1865; his business was sold to Alfred Stubbs in 1883