Triton XVIII, Lot: 1556. Estimate $300. Sold for $3250. 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” (20mm, 2.98 g). Galle in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) countermarked issue. Struck 1655/1665 or shortly thereafter. GAL monogram within circular incuse struck on obverse of 1632-1638 Goa for Malacca mint Tanga (Gomes 10.01-02, or 11.01-07). Scholten 1267. Host coin VF; countermark Good VF, deeply toned, pit and spots of hard green on shield.

From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, purchased from Baldwin’s, 8 January 1987.