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Auction 132  15-18 September 2015
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Lot 411

Estimate: 120 GBP
Price realized: 320 GBP
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ISLE of MAN COINS, Tickets and Checks (Post-1830), Home Office, Civilian Internment Camps [1941], uniface white celluloid Pennies (2, different), 30mm, 0.81g, 25mm, 0.54g, and Halfpenny, 25mm, 0.56g, all values printed in black (Campbell 5011, –, 5010; Quarmby –, 196, –; cf. R.J. Ford I, 248; cf. Cain 2795) [3]. Very fine and very rare £120-150

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Provenance: Second H.F. Guard Collection, Spink Auction 182, 29 June 2006, lot 542 (part).

By mid-1941 the Home Office had started to replace all the unofficial camp currencies with a standard series of notes and plastic penny and halfpenny tokens, these latter in two sizes (Alan Cope, TCSB September 2002, p.127).


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