Triton XIX, Lot: 2458. Estimate $1000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Colonial. Portuguese India. José o Reformador (the Reformer). 1750-1777. AV São Tomé de 10 Xerafins (20mm, 5.71 g, 5h). 1770 countermarked issue for use in Diu. Damão mint. Dated [1]1753(?). Crowned Portuguese coat-of-arms / Voided cross crosslet; [1]7 53(?) across lower bar; c/m: Crowned Portuguese coat-of-arms. Gomes 71.01; cf. Vaz Jo.187-8 (1755 examples with countermark), and p. 262, note 5 (English translation on p. 286); Friedberg 1446. VF, areas of flat strike. Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex John Work Garrett Collection (Part I, Leu/Numismatic Fine Arts, 16 May 1984), lot 511 (purchased from Jacques Schulman, 11 July 1926).