Triton XVIII, Lot: 1549. Estimate $300. Sold for $600. 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” (25mm, 7.35 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 obverse of a Tiflis mint Abbasi of 4 shahis of Shah Abbas II, dated AH [10]76 [AD 1665/6] (Cf. Rabino di Borgomale 185 [for type]; Farahbakhsh 85/7 var. [date]). Scholten 1285 (host coin date unlisted). Host coin VF; countermark VF, darkly toned, areas of flat strike. Rare.

From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex World-Wide Coins of California (James F. Elmen) XII (5 November 1987), lot 381.