Triton XVIII, Lot: 1547. Estimate $300. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Colonial. Dutch India. Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company). 1602-1800. AR “18 Stuivers” (24mm, 7.28 g). Colombo in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) countermarked issue. Struck 1661 or shortly thereafter. Dutch East India Company monogram, C above (for Colombo); all within round incuse on reverse of a Tabriz mint Abbasi of 4 shahis of Shah Abbas II, dated AH [10]68 [AD 1657/8] (Cf. Rabino di Borgomale 185 [for type]; Farahbakhsh 85/10). Scholten 1285 (host coin date unlisted). Host coin VF; countermark VF, a few scrapes on host coin, light porosity. Rare.

From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.