Ceylon
Lot 2279 SESSION 8 (2.30pm Wednesday) Ceylon
Estimate $12,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $18,000
CEYLON, George III, pattern rix dollar, 1812, in silver by Thomas Wyon Junior (Pr.254; KM.Pr3; illustrated Forrer VI, 645). Attractive grey toned, brilliant FDC and excessively rare.
Ex Spink Numismatic Circular 1931, column 232, no. 68 and R. J. Ford Collection (lot 244) and as the previous ex Cholmley (lot 393), Murdoch (lot 268) and Nobleman (lot 158). The only other pair known to the cataloguer is from Farouk (lot 2369).
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