Triton XIX, Lot: 2580. Estimate $5000. Sold for $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MALAY ARCHIPELAGO, Colonial. Nederlands-Oost-Indië (Netherlands East Indies). Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company). 1603-1800. AV Dukat (22mm, 3.24 g). Struck 1686 or 1700. B in shield-shaped cartouche countermarked on an Utrecht ducat dated 1684. For countermark: Scholten 9; KM –; Friedberg 5; DNW 62, lot 1122. For host coin: P&W Ut 24. Countermark EF, host coin VF. Extremely rare – one of only two known.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex R.J. Ford Collection (Spink-Taisei 19, 23 February 1995), lot 4; Sir Leslie de Sarun Collection. Found in Ceylon.