French East India Company

Triton XIX, Lot: 2466. Estimate $3000. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Colonial. French India. Compagnie française pour le commerce des Indes orientales (French East India Company). 1664-1769; 1785-1794. AV Pagoda (12mm, 3.76 g, 12h). Pondichéry (Puducherry) mint. Struck circa 1715-1774. Large crown decorated with pellets and stars / Semée of five lis. MCF 38; Guilloteau 24; cf. KM 49 (2 Fanon); Friedberg 1519. VF, hints of deposits. Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Spink 87 (9 October 1991), lot 1749.