Triton XVIII, Lot: 1551. Estimate $200. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Colonial. Dutch India. Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company). 1602-1800. AR “9 Stuivers” (20mm, 3.23 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 Howayza mint Mahmudi of Shah Safi I (Rabino di Borgomale 179; Farahbakhsh 76/2). Scholten 1286a. Host coin Fine; countermark VF, toned, minor flan split. Rare.

From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex Spink Taisei (20 February 1992), lot 525.