Triton XIX, Lot: 2468. Estimate $1000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Colonial. British India. Bengal Presidency. 1651-1835. Proof AV Pattern ‘Half Pice’ (22mm, 6.30 g, 3h). Calcutta mint. Dated 1809. HALF PIE, coat-of-arms of the East India Company with lion supporters; 1809 (date) below banner / Ād pāī sikka (half pice coin) in Bengali above, Ādha pāī sikkā (half pice coin) in Hindi below, nīm pāī sikka (half pice coin) in Persian; small eight-rayed stars separating Bengali and Hindi legends. Pridmore 392; KM Pn22c; Friedberg –. Proof, mirror fields, a few light hairlines. A superb original off-metal strike in gold. Extremely rare, none on CoinArchives.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Spink 55 (8 October 1986), lot 680.