Triton XIX, Lot: 2456. Estimate $1000. Sold for $5500. 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 (20mm, 3.39 g, 1h). Goa mint. Crowned Portuguese coat-of-arms; O/I and •/•/• flanking shield / São Tomé o Apóstolo seated right on block decorated with five pellets, pointing upward with right hand and holding carpenter’s square; (retrograde S) and T flanking. Gomes 17.03; Vaz J3.09; Friedberg 1451. Near VF, toned, slightly wavy flan.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Kurt Spanier, June 1994.