395, Lot: 496. Estimate $100. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MALAY ARCHIPELAGO, Colonial. Straits Settlements. temp. William IV. King of Great Britain, 1830-1837. CU Keping (21mm, 2.13 g, 6h). Private issue for circulation in Singapore. Soho (Birmingham) mint. Dated AH 1247 (AD 1835/6). Rooster / Legend in Arabic. Pridmore, Straits Settlements 48; KM 8.1. Good VF.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection, purchased from Branowsky, July 1963.