Malay Archipeligo
Netherlands East Indies

CNG 100, Lot: 908. Estimate $750. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MALAY ARCHIPELIGO, Colonial. Nederlands-Oost-Indië (Netherlands East Indies). Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company). 1603-1800. AV Ducat (22mm, 3.49 g). Struck 1753-1761. Djawa (= Java) in Arabic within circular cartouche countermarked on a Westfrisia ducat dated 1758. Scholten 438j; Delmonte 886; Friedberg 7. EF, lustrous.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from M. Louis Teller, April 1986.