Danish West Indies
800. Lot of three Danish West Indies coins: 2 skilling, 1837 (flat-top 3); 5 cents, 1879; bronze 1 cent, 1860. KM-13, 69 and
Nice XF on average, the 2 skilling somewhat grainy, the 5 cents lightly golden toned with a few darker speckles, and the 1 cent an even brown with a couple small dark spots. SEE INTERNET FOR PHOTO. Estimate: $150-$225. 63. 7.50 grams.
804. St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, octagonal uniface brass
2 lb ice token, Raven & Co. (ca. 1915-30), rare.
Rulau-Vrg51;
XF with traces of encrustation and oxidation but overall nicely even in color, the incuse lettering mostly toned for good contrast, holed at 3 o’clock as made. Estimate: $200-$300.
Sieg-75. 9.72 grams.
801. Danish West Indies, copper-nickel 5 centavos Mexi-
canos token, no date (ca. 1880), G. Peirano et Co., rare.
Lustrous UNC (very rare grade) with traces of light luster forming here and there. Tokens like this one were issues to make change for the many Mexican silver pesos circulating on the islands at that time. Estimate: $200-$300. Higgie-444; Eklund-2019; Rulau-Vrg58. 1.61 grams.
802. Lot of two Danish West Indies copper-nickel 1 centavo
Mexicano tokens, no date (1880s): C.A. Daniel & Co.; Delvalle & Co., St. Thomas. Higgie-407 and 411; Rulau-unl and Vrg14. 4.53
grams total. Both UNC or thereabouts, with muted luster, the latter with light streaks of toning. These merchant tokens were issued to make change for the many Mexican pesos which were in circulation there at that time. SEE INTERNET FOR PHOTO. Estimate: $100-$150.
805. St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, round uniface brass 1
lb ice token, Raven & Co. (ca. 1915-30), rare. Rulau-Vrg 52; Sieg74. 9.66 grams. Very evenly copper-colored XF with very small arcuate clip in edge (manufacturing error), the incuse letters all toned, holed at 3 o’clock as made. Estimate: $175-$250.
Dominica 803. Danish West Indies, small uniface brass 5 cents token,
D.O.C., ca. 1890, very rare, ex-Byrne, Higgie Plate. Higgie408A. 4.41 grams. This very simple token, with incuse D.O.C. above 5c
stamped onto one side of an otherwise blank planchet with toothed rims on both sides, appears to be unique, as it seems the same piece that Higgie published in 1962 kept coming up for sale over the next two decades, and has resided in the consignor’s collection ever since. Most likely the issue was generally melted down during WWII. Aged brass color with toning in details, minor spots of verdigris and a few old marks, VF overall, with offset ghosts of the C and 5 from previous stamping(s). Attribution of the D.O.C. marking remains uncertain: Higgie asserted the initials stood for the Danish East India Co. (Danske Ostindisk Kompagni), supposedly operating a coaling station on St. Thomas ca. 1890; however, the Danish East India Co. morphed into the Danish Asiatic Co. in 1730 and ceased to exist at all by 1850. Without more information, and given its apparent ca.-1890 style of manufacture, the possibility remains that this token has nothing to do with the Danish West Indies at all. Plate piece #408A in Higgie’s The Colonial Coinage of the U.S. Virgin Islands (1962), pedigreed to the Christensen auction of May 1973 (lot #105) and to the Ray Byrne collection (Jess Peters, June 1975, lot #400), also pedigreed to the Hornung (Copenhagen) auction of October 1983 (lot #456). Estimate: $100-up.
806. Dominica, 6 bitts, countermark crowned-6 inside con-
toured rectangle (1813) on a round center-punch of a Spanish colonial bust 8 reales of Ferdinand VII, NGC Clipped. KM-6.
7.53 grams. Deep and full countermark (VF) on bust of a rough host (Fair) with just enough of the king’s chin to attribute the name, some details on reverse, but all toned and a bit oxidized (consignor felt it had been through a fire) and with lots of marks and scratches, partially hand-grained edge from long ago (but after the stated clipping) NGC #5902083-014. Estimate: $200-$300.
807. Dominica, 1-1/2 bitts (moco), center cut of a Spanish
colonial bust 8R stamped with script-D in sunburst (1798), ex-Eckardt. KM-1. 3.37 grams. Bold and deeply struck XF+ with lovely
deep toning, the flat side devoid of details except for two stray arc shapes. Pedigreed to the Ken Eckardt collection. Estimate: $250-$375.
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