Summary

One Stiver, Issued by Mr. Balgarnie, Dry Goods Merchant, Water Street, Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), 1838
Mint not recorded

Obverse Description

Female seated on a bale facing left holding caduceus and extending a palm branch in her right hand, 3 masted sailing ship on horizon at left; around above, TRADE & NAVIGATION; in exergue, 1838

Reverse Description

At centre within a line circle in two lines, ONE / STIVER; around, PURE COPPER PREFERABLE TO PAPER

Edge Description

Plain

Significance

The reference to the tokens being of pure copper and preferable to paper is to local government paper money which the government would not recall and had therefore little or no value.

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