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Triton XVIII, Lot: 1550. Estimate $300.
Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Colonial. Dutch India. Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company). 1602-1800. AR “10 Stuivers” (19mm, 4.24 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 struck on reverse of 1652 Goa mint Double Tanga (Gomes 17.07). Scholten 1267. Host coin Fair; countermark VF, toned, test cut on edge. Very rare.


From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex Taisei 19 (23 February 1995), lot 38; Virgil M. Brand Collection (Part 9, Sotheby’s, 14 June 1985), lot 328.