World Tokens

U.S. Virgin Islands, St Croix, Huggins Taxi, blue plastic 25 Cents, c. 1975, legend, rev. value, 37mm, 2.42g/12h (Sømod 24.734; Tankersley 438; Lyall Sale 911); Steele’s Smokes & Sweets, wooden nickel, 38mm, 2.43g/6h (Tankersley 439); The Gift Shop, aluminium spinner, c. 1960, the gift shop souvenir of st. croix virgin islands, rev. arrow, round & round she goes…where she stops nobody knows, 32mm, 3.04g/12h; Divi Carina Bay Casino, brass Dollar, dolphin leaping through hoop, rev. hill fort, 37mm, 21.37g/6h; Buccaneer St Croix, uniface yellow plastic fashioned in the style of a cob, 29.5mm, 1.35g; Hurricane Hugo, 1989, elongated U.S. Cent with engraved bust of A. Hamilton, 33 x 20mm, 3.00g/12h [6]. Mostly very fine
£30-40

Provenance: Second gift of K.V. Eckardt; third bt C. Plante 1995; fourth bt November 2003.

Steele’s Smokes & Sweets, Pan Am Pavilion, Christiansted