Triton XVIII, Lot: 1552. Estimate $300. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Colonial. Dutch India. Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company). 1602-1800. AR “5 Stuivers” (19mm, 2.88 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 obverse of 1632 Goa for Malacca mint Tanga (Gomes 11.02). Scholten 1279. Host coin Near VF; countermark VF, deeply toned, countermark poorly struck.

From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex Spink Taisei (20 February 1992), lot 522.