Cyphergat Coal Company - 1s /~ !!! RARE !!!

 Cyphergat Coal Company -  1s /~   !!!  RARE !!!

This is one of South Africa's more attractive tokens and also is a fairly rare token. This Token Sell for R2500 in Hern's . 138B p72.

Just imagine yourself living in this time , Late 1800's early 1900's and you are a miner...mining coal. Not always an open pit but mostly underground , using a paraffin lamp that make more smoke than light , with every blow of your pick axe black dust fill the air. Groaning timber keeping the wall and roof from collapsing in on you with a constant water trickle coming through the roof ...this was not easy , extremely dangerous ... and to return to a zinc hut to go and sleep and to try and clean up... then, repeat , this was the daily life of coal miners .

If you want to know more about this token please go and read here 

A set of four tokens are known from this mine. Theron suggests that these were issued by De Beers when they owned the company and were used in the colliery's native workers' compound. As such their use can be paralleled with other De Beers issued compound tokens such as those on their Kimberly diamond mines.

Please also see my listing for the Ultra Rare CCC 3d here on BoB  (SORRY SOLD !! Told you they Rare ! )