Very Rare Norodom I Pattern Piastre

Triton XXI, Lot: 971. Estimate $5000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAMBODIA, French Protectorate. Norodom I. 1860-1904. Pattern AR Piastre (37mm, 24.98 g, 6h). By G. Wurden, for the Menning Brothers, Bruxelles (Brussels). Dated 1875. ESSAI DE LA PRESSE MONÉTAIRE DU ROI DU CAMBODGE, bare head left; • 1875 • below / * MENNING FRERES, MACANICIENS A BRUXELLES, St. Michael slaying the devil. Edge: plain. MCF 10; KM (X) T2. Superb EF, depp iridescent toning. Very rare.