COSTA RICA: 50 centavos token, ND, Rulau-SJS42, wage token, COSTA RICA RAILWAY - C. R // 50 CENTAVOS, struck in copper-nickel, an attractive mint state example, PCGS graded MS62, ex Dr. Axel Wahlstedt Collection. This example was part of an old collection from Sweden of likely specimen strikes or sample coins due to the high quality of the strike and condition of the token. Likely struck in Germany by a currently unknown private mint.In June 1885, Don Minor Keith signed in London, as agent and representative of the Government of Costa Rica, arrangements that would allow completion of the railroad to the Atlantic. The company was created on April 22, 1886 as the Costa Rica Railway Company Limited, domiciled in England. The construction of the missing lines was started and the reconstruction of the entire Port of Limón, with drainage, sewerage and supply works. The project was completed on December 6, 1890. The company had tokens in copper-nickel minted to pay the workers who were were doing their work along the railroad at Atlántico, also installing comisariatos ("Stores") where the tokens could be used for purchase of products. These tokens were minted with values of 5, 10, 25 and 50 cents; on the obverse they had the inscription "Costa Rica Railway · C.R" and on the reverse the face value.

Estimate: USD 100 - 150