Triton XVIII, Lot: 1554. Estimate $300. Sold for $1500. 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” (18mm, 2.24 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 obverse of 164[0] Ceilão mint Tanga (Gomes 15.01). Scholten 1281. Host coin VF; countermark VF, toned.

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.