Ex Brand and Ellis Collections

Triton XIX, Lot: 2578. Estimate $15000. Sold for $42500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MALAY ARCHIPELAGO, Colonial. British Bencoolen (Sumatra). United East India Company. 1685-1824. Proof AV ‘2 Keping’ (20mm, 6.18 g, 6h). Pulta (Bengal) mint. Dually dated AH 1197 and AD 1783. East India Company balemark / Legend in Arabic. Scholten 945; KM 255b; Friedberg –. FDC. Extremely rare. Off-metal strike in gold.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Renaissance Auctions (6 December 2000), lot 591; Virgil M. Brand Collection (Part 9, Sotheby’s, 14 June 1985), lot 247; H. Leslie Ellis Collection (purchased from Spink, August 1919).