J. P. Green & C ^o

A Ceylon 4^D½ Token issued by Messrs. J. P. Green & Co., of Colpetty Mills, Colombo, in 1858, and was struck in England. As in other cases, the 4 1/2d. represents 18 cents, which is the price paid for picking half a hundred-weight of clean coffee.

SPECIFICATIONS Denomination 4½ pence Alloy Copper Diameter 22. mm Thickness 1.2 mm Weight 3.53 gms Shape Round Edge Plain DieAxis 3O° Issue not identified
Lowsley #11, Pridmore #38 Mitchiner Unlisted

Obverse -	J P G within a beaded circle.
Reverse -	4D½	within a beaded circle.

In 1883 J. P. Green & Co. owned a mill for coffee at Konupitiya with a labour force of 450 hands. The partners of the firm were J. P. Green, Staniforth Green, with A. P. Green and G. H. Green as assistants. From the information given by Lowsley, the Colpetty mills of J. P. Green & Co, must have passed later into the hands of Lee Hedges & Co. (see No. 61).

Another token, I obtained at the same time has a small hole drilled out on top and appears to have been plated with tin or pewter. Other examples of this unpublished version of token this known in Colombo.

The token scannned and diplayed at 300 dpi is from an SLNS meeting Auction held in Colombo in 2004 November.
Interesting to have a token with initials same as the standard extension of JPEG compessed images.