Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1908. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Hamburg. AV Half Portugaleser of 5 Ducats (17.07 g, 12h). SICHER AUCH IN GEFAHREN, MUTH MIT VORSICHT, three-masted merchant ship Jacob Albers sailing out of Hamburg harbor with lighthouse in background / HAMBURG'SCHE ASSÉcuRANZ SOCIETÆT ERRICHTET 1793 DEM VORBILDE TREU ERNEUERT 1803 within wreath of ivy and cattails, 1797 with arc of ivy above. Gaedachens III. 1998. EF, proof-like surfaces with frosted devices, scattered handling marks in fields. ($5000)

Celebrates the tenth year of service of a very profitable private Hamburger merchant ship.