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Auction 109  9 Mar 2023
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Lot 414

Starting price: 1000 GBP
Price realized: 1800 GBP
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South Africa, Griquatown, silver Five Pence, 1815?1816, Missionary Series silver token, Emblem of the London Missionary Society, a dove flying with an olive branch in its beak. Rev. Denomination between two lines with legend above and below (KM Tn4; Hern. GT2). In NGC holder graded MS 63, rare. Only one example known finer in NGC population. Brian Hern states that these pieces were used briefly by the Griqua people. He points out that these tokens were the first money specifically minted for, and used by, a South African people. It is not known if they were called 'pence' or another local name.
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