Triton XIX, Lot: 2445. Estimate $1500. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Princely States. Travancore. Tulabharam Issues. ME 1035-1055 / AD 1860-1880. AV Double Pagoda (21mm, 5.09 g, 12h). Struck circa 1870-1931. Śri Padmanabha Shanku (conch) within wreath / Śri/Padma/nabha in three lines in Malyalam; all within wreath. KM (X) 12 (KM M12); Friedberg 1414. EF, light field marks, traces of deposits, and minor flan flaw on reverse. Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Mortimer Hammel Collection (Stack’s, 16 September 1982), lot 1009.