Triton XIX, Lot: 2726. Estimate $10000.
Sold for $30000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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VIETNAM (ANNAM), Nguyễn dynasty. Dực Tông (Tự Đức). 1847-1883. AV Lạng – 10 Tìên (48mm, 37.88 g, 12h). ‘Ten Virtues – Loyalty of the Subject’ type. Struck 1869.
Tu Duc Thong Bao in Han-nom characters around central radiant sun; all within scalloped border /
Nhat Lang Viet Trung in Han-nom characters around central radiant sun; in quarters, dragon flying left; all within scalloped border. Schroeder 376B; BN,
Vietnamiennes Supp. 513; Thierry, Extrême –; KM 561; Friedberg 51. EF, toned, hand punched beading on reverse. Extremely rare.
From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Sidney Fry Collection (Christensen 79, 11 December 1981), lot 6.
Some of the beadwork at the reverse margin has been hand punched after striking. Dr. Adams notes two other specimens in the Fry Collection sale bearing the same unusual punches (lots 7 and 8) and hypothesizes that, as these are presentation pieces, such alterations could either have been made at the mint or by the coin’s recipient.
