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Triton XVIII, Lot: 1553. Estimate $200.
Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Colonial. Dutch India. Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company). 1602-1800. AR “5 Stuivers” (19mm, 3.06 g). Colombo in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) countermarked issue. Struck 1661 or shortly thereafter. Dutch East India Company monogram, C above (for Colombo); all within round incuse struck on reverse of 1631 Goa for Malacca mint Tanga (Gomes 11.01). Scholten 1280. Host coin VF; countermark VF, deeply toned, countermark poorly struck, flan flaw on reverse, spots of hard green.


From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex Taisei 19 (23 February 1995), lot 39.