David E. Henkle: Token Collector
Tokens of Africa, Latin America and the West Indies

(last updated .05-19-2026)

      This page is dedicated to my late brother David E. Henkle of Mishawaka, IN.   David E. Henkle (1937-2026), a coin collector starting when he was 10 years old, spent over 60 years of his life as a dedicated collector of tokens of Africa, Latin America and the West Indies. He self-published an over 3,000 page loose-leaf Catalog describing his collection and also every other known token for 90 countries. He continued updating pages of his Catalog until his death in May of 2026. The total number of pages is unknown to me at this time, and I have not yet found a Title page he might have made for the entire collection. A work-in-progress, this page will display his Introduction for America, and sample pages from his 348 page Catalog and 22 page Index of just the Tokens of Puerto Rico chapter. He wrote a separate Introduction for Africa.

      The pages displayed are taken from the thumb drive Catalog copy he sent me in August 2021. Each page is a separate .JPG file. The format of the original edited document from which he took a screenshot of each page is also unknown at this time. For the 2021 edition of his Catalog I have, its total size is 3.25 GB comprised of 18,048 files in 780 folders, i.e., it does not exist as a single file merged together.

      I created all merged together PDF documents installed on this page. When David added a new token entry to a page, the last entry on that page got pushed to the top of the next page. At times he finalized a new "edition" of a country's entries, and saved those screenshot pages in a separate dated directory. Then he began working on the next edition. Therefore, a particular token could be found on different pages depending on which edition it appeared in. He indexed tokens based on the page it appeared in a specific dated edition. I have found he created 11 different editions for one country. The 2021 thumb drive I received from him only included at most two editions for each country, even there may have been more editions. When I gain access to his laptop, I hope to find that he saved every edition he created for every country. Only the lastest dated edition I have will be installed on this page, not all editions.

Bibliography of David's books I have not seen:
      Wooden money of Latin America and the West Indies by David E. Henkle, 24 p., January 1, 1995, LC: 1995-196509

      Please note that this will be the only Numismatic page on this Philatelic website. As stipulated in his will, David's entire Token collection will be distributed back into the hands of other Token collectors by whatever appropriate Sale, Auction, or other process which is yet to be determined. When the method of distrubution is decided, it will publicized here.

      References

1. Sample pages and scans from the
         David E. Henkle Puerto Rico Checklist and Collection
         Checklist 348 pages -- Index 22 pages -- Collection 1,368 scans in 66 City folders
         Checklist pages 1, 2, 59, 348 -- Index pages 1, 22 -- all Aguada, Aguadilla, and Aguas Buenas scans and 2 sample Aguada tokens
   

America -- All content displayed and all linked PDF/OCRs were written by David E. Henkle

!!IntroLat -- Introduction to the Checklist (America) (PDF/OCR), 21 pages (August 22, 1997)
!ReferLat -- 43 pages
!SourcLat -- Sources: Latin America and West Indies (PDF/OCR), 15 pages (December 2013)
1. Anguilla -- Checklist 1 page (PDF/OCR) (March 2007, 1st ed.) -- Index 0 pages -- Collection 2 scans
2. Antigua -- Checklist 3 pages (PDF/OCR) (May 1991, 4th ed.) -- Index 0 pages -- Collection 11 scans
3. Argentina -- Checklist 97 pages -- Index 7 pages -- Collection 448 scans
4. Bahamas -- Checklist 29 pages -- Index 3 pages -- Collection 80 scans
5. Barbados -- Checklist 8 pages (PDF/OCR) (October 1997, 4th ed.) -- Index 0 pages -- Collection 11 scans
6. Belize (British Honduras) -- Checklist 3 pages (PDF/OCR) (January 1991, 3rd ed.) -- Index 0 pages -- Collection 5 scans
7. Bermuda -- Checklist 9 pages (PDF/OCR) (November 1997, 4th ed.) -- Index 0 pages -- Collection 27 scans
8. Bolivia -- Checklist 34 pages -- Index 5 pages -- Collection 121 scans
9. Brazil -- Checklist 334 pages -- Index 24 pages -- Collection 1,433 scans in 26 City folders
10. British Virgin Islands -- Intro, Bibliog, Checklist 7 pages (PDF/OCR) (November 10, 2008, 3rd ed.) -- Index 0 pages -- Collection 6 scans
11. Chile -- Checklist 257 pages -- Index 24 pages -- Collection 617 scans in 17 City folders
12. Colombia -- Intro, Bibliog, Checklist 137 pages -- Index 10 pages -- Collection 175 scans
13. Costa Rica -- Intro, Bibliog, Checklist 116 pages -- Index 8 pages -- Collection 513 scans in 2 folders
14. Cuba -- Checklist 98 pages -- Index 5 pages -- Collection 209 scans
15. Danish West Indies -- Intro, Bibliog, Checklist 37 pages -- Index 2 pages -- Collection 124 scans
(work-in-progress)
16. Dominica
17. Dominican Republic
18. Ecuador
19. El Salvador
20. Grenada
21. Guadeloupe
22. Guatemala
23. Guyana
24. Haiti
25. Honduras
26. Jamaica
27. Martinique
28. Mexico
29. Netherlands Antilles
30. Nicaragua
31. Panama
32. Paraguay
33. Peru
34. Puerto Rico -- Checklist 348 pages -- Index 22 pages -- Collection 1,368 scans in 66 City folders
35. Saint Kitts
36. Saint Lucia
37. Saint Vincent
38. Surinam
39. Trinidad and Tobago
40. Uruguay
41. Venezuela

Africa -- All content displayed and all linked PDF/OCRs were written by David E. Henkle

!!IntroAfr -- 9 pages
!ReferAfr -- 10 pages
!SourcAfr -- 4 pages
1. Algeria -- Checklist 53 pages -- Index 7 pages -- Collection 92 scans
2. Angola -- Checklist 5 pages -- Index 0 pages -- Collection 5 scans
3. Azores -- Checklist 2 pages -- Index 0 pages -- Collection 3 scans
4. Botswana -- Checklist 2 pages -- Index 0 pages -- Collection 2 scans
5. Cameroon -- Checklist 2 pages -- Index 0 pages -- Collection 2 scans
6. Canary Islands -- Checklist 1 page -- Index 0 pages -- Collection 1 scan
7. Cape Verde Islands -- Checklist 2 pages -- Index 0 pages -- Collection 0 scans
8. Comoro Islands -- Checklist 3 pages -- Index 0 pages -- Collection 5 scans
9. Congo -- Checklist 2 pages -- Index 0 pages -- Collection 0 scans
10. Djibouti -- Checklist 2 pages -- Index 0 pages -- Collection 3 scans
11. Egypt -- Checklist 27 pages -- Index 2 pages -- Collection 110 scans
12. Ethiopia -- Checklist 6 pages -- Index 0 pages -- Collection 11 scans
13. Gabon -- Checklist 8 pages -- Index 0 pages -- Collection 13 scans
14. Ghana -- Checklist 2 pages -- Index 0 pages -- Collection 4 scans
15. Guinea -- Checklist 1 page -- Index 0 pages -- Collection 0 scans
(work-in-progress)
16. Ivory Coast
17. Kenya
18. Lesotho
19. Liberia
20. Libya
21. Madagascar
22. Madeira
23. Malawi
24. Mali
25. Mauritania
26. Mauritius
27. Morocco
28. Mozambique
29. Namibia
30. Nigeria
31. Reunion
32. Rwanda
33. S Tomé E Principe
34. Saint Helena
35. Seychelles
36. Sierra Leone
37. Somalia
38. South Africa
39. Sudan
40. Swaziland
41. Sénégal
42. Tanzania
43. Tchad
44. Togo
45. Tunisia
46. Uganda
47. Zaire
48. Zambia
49. Zimbabwe

• Henkle, David E. -- 6-19-1937 Urbana, IL - 5-12-2026 Mishawaka, IN -- American numismatist, Token Collector (the subject of this page) -- Palmer Funeral Homes Obituary
• Rulau, Russell (Alphonse) -- 9-21-1926 Chicago, IL – 11-12-2012 Iola, WI -- American numismatist, Author -- Wikipedia
• Wood, Howland -- 5-30-1877 New Bedford, MA - ?-??-1938 Flushing, Queens, NY -- American numismatist, Author -- Wikipedia

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