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CEYLON: brass 4 1/2 pence token, ND [1866], elephant facing left, VF-EF

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CEYLON: brass 4 1/2 pence token, ND [1866], elephant facing left, VF-EF
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This item SOLD at 2021 Apr 12 @ 11:53UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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CEYLON: brass 4½ pence token, ND [1866], Lowsley-13, Pridmore-53, elephant facing left // monogram of K. D. & Co., both sides within a beaded circle inside raised rim, small hole started as usual for type, VF-EF, ex Jim Farr Collection.

This type of brass token wass struck in London and issued in 1866, by a company founded in 1854 by Simon Keir, who was a planter in 1850 with partners G. H. Dundas and Captain John Keith Jolly. The firm was a large enterprise of estate agents, general merchants and forwarding agents with an office in Kings Street, Kandy, Ceylon. This token is always bored for suspension with a small circular hole above the elephant. It was used at St. Sebastian Mills, Colombo (opposite side of the canal to the Ceylon Company's mills).