| SPECIFICATIONS | |
| Denomination | 19 Cents |
| Alloy | AE |
| Diameter | 24.5 mm |
| Thickness | mm |
| Weight | 4.40 gms |
| Shape | round |
| Edge | Plain |
| DieAxis | O° |
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| Lowsley #L23 Pridmore #78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obv. : | --.-- D.P.P.CO. --.-- | within a beaded circle inside raised rim. |
| Rev. : | 19 CENTS --.-- | within a beaded circle inside raised rim. |
4½D converts to 18¾ cents at the legal 50 cents per shilling rate adopted for Decimal currency in 1870. 18½ or 19 Cents have been used on Ceylon Coffee Tokens.
A well-struck token with beaded circle on both sides, and in size rather smaller
than a bronze halfpenny.
It may have been issued by the firm, David Perera Perera, of Colombo.
but this identification is uncertain. The specimens which Lowsley found were from Colombo.
Lowsley gives an issue date of 1865 which is clearly wrong by Cents denomination.
Reference
* Coins and Tokens
of Ceylon, Lieut. Col B. Lowsley, Num. Chron. Sr III Vol. XV, 1895.
* The Coins of British Commonwealth of Nations to the end of the
reign of George VI 1952
Part 2 - Asian Territories by F. Pridmore Spink & Son Ltd., 1965.
Tokens
The token was scanned at 600 dpi and the images are displayed at 250 dpi.
I thank Bob Lyall of UK, for the scans of this token from his collection.