Triton XIX, Lot: 2665. Estimate $2000. Sold for $70000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SRI LANKA (CEYLON), Colonial. British. Victoria. 1837-1901. Proof AV ‘5 Cents’ (34mm, 38.04 g, 12h). Calcutta mint. Dated 1891 (though a later restrike). Diademed head left / Talipot palm. Cf. KM 92 (for type in copper); Friedberg –. Proof, some scattered marks. Off-metal strike in gold.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Sotheby’s (20 April 1993), lot 587 (part of); Palace Collections of Egypt (King Farouk – Sotheby’s, 24 February 1954), lot 861 (part of).