Triton XVIII, Lot: 1650. Estimate $200. Sold for $275. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MALAY ARCHIPELIGO, Colonial. Java. Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company). 1602-1800. AR Rupee (27mm, 12.47 g, 12h). Mint unnamed, but struck at Batavia (Jakarta). Dated 1766. ila djazirat/Djawa al-kabir (For the island/of Java the Great) in Malay-Arabic in two lines; above, pelleted cross (mintmark) above; 1766 below / dirham min/Kompani/Welandawi (Dirham of/the Holland/Company) in Malay-Arabic in three lines. Edge: /////. Scholten 458a; N&C 20b. EF, toned.

From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex van der Dussen/Westerhof 3 (3 June 1985), lot 964.