1 Stiver
Features
| Issuer |
British Guiana
(Guyana)
 |
|---|---|
| Queen |
Victoria (1837-1901)
|
| Type | Emergency coinage › Merchant tokens |
| Year | 1838 |
| Value | 1 Stiver (1⁄20) |
| Currency | British Guianan Guilder (1796-1839) |
| Composition | Copper |
| Weight | 17.6 g |
| Diameter | 33 mm |
| Thickness | 2 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 19596 |
| References | KM# Tn3 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). Charlton Press (publisher). Canadian Colonial Tokens. Charlton Press (13 volumes). Pierre-Napoléon Breton; 1894. Histoire illustrée des monnaies et jetons du Canada = Illustrated history of coins and tokens relating to Canada. P.N. Breton & Co., Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Fred Pridmore. Coins of the British Commonwealth of Nations to the End of the Reign of George VI 1952. Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom (5 volumes). |
Obverse
Legend around wreathed portrait left
Script: Latin
Lettering: PURE COPPER PREFERABLE TO PAPER ·
Reverse
Britannia seated on a bale facing left holding caduceus in left hand and extending a palm branch in her right hand. A three-masted sailing ship on horizon at left. Lettering around, date in exergue
Script: Latin
Lettering:
TRADE & NAVIGATION
1838
Edge
Plain
© ZacUK
Comments
Also listed in A Charlton Standard Catalogue Canadian Colonial Tokens under Nova Scotia tokens.
Private token coinage.
Private token coinage.
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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| Undetermined | |||||||||||||||
| 1838 | 
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$ 170 | |||||||||||||
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Numista Rarity index: 80
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Past sales
| Pictures | Sale | Date | Grade | Sold price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
    |
Heritage Auctions Thursday World & Ancient Coins Weekly Online Auction 232005 Lot 65228 
|
30 Jan 2020 |
UNC (PCGS MS64 Brown) |
USD 192.00
(incl. buyer's premium) |
|
| © Heritage Auctions | |||||
  |
Heritage Auctions A Special Selection of World Coins Monthly Internet Auction 271912 Lot 36066
|
24 Mar 2019 |
UNC (NGC MS62 Brown) |
USD 132.00
(incl. buyer's premium) |
|
| © Heritage Auctions | |||||
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