Triton XVIII, Lot: 1555. Estimate $300. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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INDIA, Colonial. Dutch India. Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company). 1602-1800. AR “10 Stuivers” (21mm, 4.00 g). Galle in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) countermarked issue. Struck 1655/1665 or shortly thereafter. GAL monogram within circular incuse struck on reverse of 1652 Goa mint Double Tanga (Gomes 17.07). Scholten 1265. Host coin Fine; countermark VF, toned. 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 380.