Tokens of the West Indies
Turks & Caicos Islands, COCKBURN HARBOUR, J.N. Reynolds, cast brass Twelve-and-a-Half Cents, 21mm, 5.94g/6h (Lyall 518; Prid. –; Ford –; Tankersley –). Obverse fine, reverse partly flat, fair, extremely rare; only two specimens known £600-£800
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Provenance: E. Roehrs Collection, DNW Auction 95, 14 February 2012, lot 1300 [from C. Plante 1993]
John Ney Reynolds (d. 1890, aged c. 65) was involved in the Newfoundland lumber trade before migrating to Grand Turk island, where he was in business as a salt raker and exporter from about 1865; his business was sold to Alfred Stubbs in 1883.