St John's Communion Tokens for sale
In the nineteenth century, St John’s provided pewter communion tokens to church members to bring to Communion. These were distributed to members of the Congregation to show who was eligible for Communion – dating from an old practice of having such tokens in Scotland when they were used as a device to ensure only those who could be trusted could attend.
Many New Zealand Presbyterian Churches issued them in the nineteenth century but the St John’s tokens of 1878 and 1886 are amongst the rarest. St John’s has sold almost all it had to help raise funds for earthquake strengthening but will hold two for the future. Now just one is left that could be sold to a member of the Congregation in a sale that would help earthquake strengthening fundraising.
The tokens have generally sold for between $600 and $1,400. St John’s is now offering members of the Congregation the opportunity to buy the last available tokens at $600. Note that these sales are not charitable donations.
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