Emetteur: Private (Mr. Balgarnie) to British Guiana (Guyana) Victoria Queen.
Type: Token
Year: 1838
Value: 1 Stiver (1/20)
Currency: British Guianan Guilder (1796-1839)
Metal: Copper
Grade: F/VG
Weight: 14.7 g.
Diameter: 33 mm
Orientation: Coin alignment ↑↓
References: KM# Tn1, Prid# 60
Obverse:
Britannia seated on a bale facing left holding caduceus in her left hand and extending a palm branch in her right hand. A three-masted sailing ship on horizon at left. Lettering around, date in exergue
Lettering:
TRADE & NAVIGATION
1838
Reverse:
Lettering:
PURE COPPER PREFERABLE TO PAPER·
ONE STIVER
Edge:
Plain
Comments:
One Stiver, Issued by Mr. Balgarnie, Dry Goods Merchant, Water Street, Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), 1838. Mint not recorded.
Significance: The reference to the tokens being of pure copper and preferable to paper is to local government paper money, which the government would not recall and had therefore little or no value.
Reference: Prid.60
Pridmore, Fred. 1965. The Coins of the British Commonwealth of Nations, Part 3, West Indies.
Référence : KM# Tn1, Prid# 60
Source : https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1...
Collection : English, Scottish & Irish, Conder Tokens, Commonwealth & Colonial Tokens