CNG 100, Lot: 909. Estimate $1250. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MALAY ARCHIPELIGO, Colonial. Nederlands-Oost-Indië (Netherlands East Indies). Bataafse Republiek (Batavian Republic). 1799-1806. AV Half Rupee (19mm, 7.98 g, 6h). Batavia (Jakarta) mint; Johan Anthonie Zwekkert, mintmaster. Dated 1802. Legend in Arabic in two lines; date below, rooster above / Legend in Arabic in three lines. Scholten 525; KM 209; Friedberg 12. Good VF.

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