The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 50, December 12, 2004, Article 11

HOLED SLAVE COINS OFFERED

  Duane H. Feisel writes: This sort of thing has been 
  offered on eBay for some time now.  It pertains to
  something that was written up recently.

  [The eBay item number is 3945198231.  I won't repeat
  the full description here, but it is a holed coin
  that the seller attributes as a slave piece.
  From the lot description:

  "This coin is rare and unusual, it is also what is 
  known as a spiritual coin. The coin also has a lot of 
  meaning and history associated with it. DEVIL'S ISLAND
  as the name shows is probably the place on earth where
  more evil has taken place. It was a place of slave 
  distribution for all of South America and later a penal 
  colony. The coin was minted 1789, minted in Cayenne 
 (Devil's Island). The coin denomination is two sous."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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