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Triton XIX, Lot: 2732. Estimate $5000.
Sold for $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

VIETNAM (ANNAM), Nguyễn dynasty. Dực Tông (Tự Đức). 1847-1883. AV 5 Tìên (34mm, 19.07 g, 12h). ‘Five Happinesses’ type. Tu Duc Thong Bao in Han-nom characters around central hole / Five bats (symbols of happiness) and five clouds around central hole; Ngu Phuc in Han-nom characters flanking. Schroeder 410; BN, Vietnamiennes –; Thierry, Extrême V263-4; KM 543; Friedberg 40. Near EF, lustrous.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from M. Louis Teller, August 1982.