G W & CO (George Wall & Co)

half Value

A brass token issued by George Wall & Co. of Colombo, Ceylon, representing half the value of the C token and the M token tokens. i.e. 2¼d which was revalued to 6¼ cents after decimal coinage was issued in 1870.

SPECIFICATIONS
Denomination pence
AlloyBrass
Diameter23.5 mm
Thickness mm
Weight3.15 gms
Shaperound
EdgePlain
DieAxis
gwco_half_obverse gwco_half_reverse
gwco_half_cm_obverse gwco_half_cm_reverse
Lowsley Unlisted; Pridmore #110

Obverse : Monogram GW&CO (George Wall & Co) within a beaded circle inside raised rim.
Reverse : Blank within a beaded circle inside raised rim.
Maybe stamped incuse with Integer.

The incuse numeral appears to be for the purpose of control.

For more details see the larger C token associated with the name of George Wall.

The tokens were scanned at 600 dpi and the images are displayed at 250 dpi.
I thank Bob Lyall of UK, for the scans of these tokens from his collection.