Triton XIX, Lot: 2455. Estimate $4000. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Colonial. Portuguese India. João III o Piedoso (the Pious). 1521-1557. AV Pardau São Tomé (19mm, 3.36 g, 3h). Cochin mint. Crowned Portuguese coat-of-arms; O/I and C flanking shield / São Tomé o Apóstolo seated right on block decorated with five pellets, pointing upward with right hand and holding carpenter’s square; S and T flanking. Cf. Gomes 18 (for type); Vaz J3.27; Friedberg 1440. Good VF, areas of weak strike.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Stephen Album, September 2008.