World Tokens, the Property of a North Country Collector
Sierra Leone, Isaacs, Reader & Co., 3 pence, obv. *MATACONG & * LIVERPOOL around ISAACS / READER / & Co., rev. THREE / PENCE / 1855, lead alloy, milled edge, 28mm (Vice FT 6). Good fine, but corrosion at parts of edge both sides, extremely rare, perhaps the only recorded specimen £300-£400
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bt. 1999
Struck for use at Isaacs, Reader and Co.'s trading station on Matacong Island, sixty miles north of Freetown. The business partnership lasted from 1855 to 1859