World Silver & Bronze
Lot 1823 World Silver & Bronze
Estimate $400
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SOLD $230
BURMA, standard weights of the Burmese kings, set of five of the sacred 'swan series' issued 1853-1878, weights 339, 170, 82.4, 31.5, 8.3, grams corresponding to 20, 10, 5, 2, 1/2 Kyats. (Robinson and Shaw, The Coins and Banknotes of Burma, Chapter 5, pp.31-4 [cf.figure 3, 4, 11 p.32], cf.M.2831-5). Fine - very fine and very rare for the swan. (5)
Robinson and Shaw in a table on p.34 show that the range of weights for each standard weight of the various Bird series types could vary by as much as 10% from high to low.
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