Triton XIX, Lot: 2657. Estimate $5000. Sold for $27500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SOUTH AFRICA, Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (South African Republic). 1881-1902. AV ‘Tickey – Threepence’ (16mm, 2.62 g, 12h). Pretoria mint. Dated 1898. Bust of Paul Kruger left / Date flanking denomination; all within laurel wreath; Z. A. R above. Hern ZP5; KM PnA23; Friedberg –. EF, lustrous, some hairlines. Off-metal strike in gold.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Sotheby’s (17 July 1986), lot 758.

This off-metal strike of the South African tickey was apparently struck specifically for the entrepreneur Sammy Marks.