CEYLON: brass 4½ pence, ND (1866), Prid-52, Lowsley-14, K. D. & Co. monogram // East Indiaman three masted sailing ship, within a beaded circle inside raised rim, PCGS graded MS64. These brass tokens were struck in London and issued in 1866 by the company founded in 1854 by Simon Keir, who was a planter in 1850 with partners G. H. Dundas and Captain John Keith Jolly. The company was a large enterprise of estate agents, general merchants and forwarding agents with an office on Kings Street, Kandy, Ceylon. Struck for the Smallpass Mills, Colombo.
Estimate: 125-175 USD