366, Lot: 250. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

COLONIAL ISSUES, Portugese India. João V o Magnânimo (the Magnanimous). 1706-1750. AV São Tomé de 5 Xerafins (16mm, 2.89 g, 2h). Diu mint. Dated 1721. Crowned Portuguese coat-of-arms; (retrograde D) – [O] across field / São Tomé o Apóstolo standing facing, raising hand and holding carpenter’s square; [I7] – 2I across field. Gomes 97.01; Vaz, Indo-Portuguese, J5.160-1; Friedberg 1442. EF, areas of flat strike. Extremely rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from M. Louis Teller, 1978.