Auction Catalogue

14 February 2012

Starting at 2:00 PM

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World Tokens

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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№ 1227 x

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14 February 2012

Hammer Price:
£360

Jamaica, Checks, Tickets and Tokens, MORANT BAY, I.J. Mordecai & Co, cupro-nickel Three-Halfpence, c. 1880, name around value, rev. legend, 19mm, 2.31g/12h (Lyall 156; Prid. 146). Tarnished, otherwise about very fine, rare £100-150

Provenance: Bt R.C. Soxman May 1972.

Ivanhoe Joseph Mordecai (1855-1923), b. Kingston, dry goods and hardware merchant, fl.
c. 1880-1915, owner of Stanton estate, senior resident JP for St Thomas, 1916