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CEYLON: AE 3 annas token (3.08g), ND (1895), VF

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CEYLON: AE 3 annas token (3.08g), ND (1895), VF
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This item SOLD at 2023 Jan 29 @ 10:11UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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CEYLON: AE 3 annas token (3.08g), ND (1895), Prid-4A, Lowsley-1, 23mm bronze merchant token; A. A. // 3 ANNAS, VF, R. Listed in Pridmore, Part 4, India, Volume 2 4A. No company or estate can be traced in Ceylon whose name corresponds to the initials A.A., but research and the monetary value suggestions that it was issued by the Anglo-American Direct Tea Trading Co. Lt., Nellampatty, Malabar, S. India. The company were proprietors of tea, coffee, and cardamom estates in various districts of South India. They also had tea gardens in Assam. Their Calcutta agents were Finlay, Muir & Company. This copper token is larger than a farthing. Three annas would be equal to 4½d., or 18¾ cents, the price usually paid in Ceylon to a woman for picking half a bushel of clean coffee.