Countermarked Dutch Coromandel “22½ Stuivers”

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1545. Estimate $300. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Colonial. Dutch India. Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company). 1602-1800. AR “22½ Stuivers” (31mm, 9.23 g). Pulicat in Kust van Coromandel (Dutch Coromandel) countermarked issue. Struck mid-17th century. Dutch East India Company monogram within round incuse struck on reverse of a Tabriz mint Abbasi of 5 shahis of Shah Abbas II, dated AH 1072 [AD 1661/2] (Cf. Rabino di Borgomale 189 [for type]; Farahbakhsh 89/1 var. [date]). Scholten 1204. Host coin Good Fine; countermark VF. Rare.

From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex Bonhams (19 October 1993), lot 547.