World Tokens

U.S. Virgin Islands, St Croix, Danish West Indies, Christian VII, 12 Skillings, 1767, rev. countermarked st croix raised within a rectangular indent, 23mm, 2.81g. Coin worn, countermark very fine £60-80

Provenance: The Property of a Gentleman, Spink Auction 78, 10 October 1990, lot 840 [from K.V. Eckardt].

The countermark was applied by George Thurland, gold and silversmith, 39 Queens Cross street, Christiansted, recorded in the 1846 census as being 66 years of age