Trinidad, PORT OF SPAIN, H.E. Rapsey, Half Stampee (at the time 1 cent), legend around value, rev. legend around a shamrock, thistle and rose, copper, 27mm (Lyall 508; Prid. 5). Fine with some surface corrosion and dark toning, rare £150-£200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, World Tokens, the Property of a North Country Collector.

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Provenance: Bt. C. B. Fox, 1987

Horatio Edwin Rapsey emigrated from England to Trinidad prior to 1860. He established a bakery and grocery business at 9 Fredrick Street which passed to his son John Alfred Rapsey about 1887. The token was issued c. 1860 (certainly prior to 1868)