Important British and World Coins including Important Irish Coins from a Private Collection (Part II)

Cape Province, Cape Colony, J.H. Cartwright, zinc Halfcrown, Shilling and Sixpence, c. 1898-1912 (Hern 96c-e; Theron C1; Ford 4757), square zinc Shilling, c. 1898-1912 (Hern 96g; Theron C1; Ford –) [4]. Fair, the Sixpence better (£40-50)

Provenance:
Almost certainly from the Liesbeeck River Hoard, 1950.

Joseph Henry Cartwright (1855-1934), b. Brierly Hill, Staffordshire, emigrated to South Africa c. 1880, railway contractor and builder; his tokens were used in the area between Saldanha Bay and Knysna, but his extant stock of them was washed into the Liesbeeck River during a flood in 1912