| SPECIFICATIONS | |
| Denomination | Full |
| Alloy | Brass |
| Diameter | 28 mm |
| Thickness | mm |
| Weight | 5.91 gms |
| Shape | round |
| Edge | Plain |
| DieAxis | O° |
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| Lowsley #5 Pridmore #20 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obv. : | Monogram CPC (Ceylon Plantation Co.) | within beaded circle inside raised rim |
| Rev. : | Blank (sometimes with letter E stamped incuse.) - | within beaded circle inside raised rim |
This token is well struck, doubtless minted in England.
See also Half Task Value token.
CEYLON PLANTATION CO. This was one of the earliest companys
floated in Ceylon for the cultivation of coffee, cinchona, and later,
tea.
It was under the auspices of the Ceylon Plantation Company that the
great George Wall (see Nos. 107-110) took up the acting managership on
his arrival in Ceylon in 1846. The office of the company was in Kandy
and George Wall took up his residence at Haramby (or Aramba) House
which was subsequently occupied by the Kandy Club in the nineties and
is now the Hotel Suisse. Wall was manager of the company until he went
to Colombo in 1850 to open his own business.
Reference
* Coins and Tokens
of Ceylon, Lieut. Col B. Lowsley, Num. Chron. Sr III Vol. XV, 1895.
* The Coins of British Commonwealth of Nations to the end of the
reign of George VI 1952
Part 2 - Asian Territories by F. Pridmore Spink & Son Ltd., 1965.
Tokens
The token was scanned at 600 dpi and the images are displayed at 200 dpi.
I thank Bob Lyall of UK, for the scans of this token from his collection.