World Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 1193 SESSION 7 (9.30AM WEDNESDAY 26TH NOVEMBER) World Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $15,000
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PENANG (PULU PENANG OR PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND), East India Company silver half dollar, 1788, edge plain (not in collar), die axis upright or en medaille (Pr.1; KM.7). Planchet flaw in top left corner of shield, beautifully toned even light grey brown, nearly extremely fine and very rare, one of the finest known and a great South East Asian rarity.
Ex L.E. Bruun, May 1925 (lot 940); H.A. Parsons (1929, lot 851) Dr. A.N. Brushfield (lot 303) collections, Seaby 1969 (lot 95), A.H. Baldwin (R.J. Ford) and Spink Singapore Sale (lot 222).
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Lot 1191
NETHERLANDS INDIES, William II silver gulden, 1839 (KM.300a). Very fine.
Estimate $100
Lot 1192
PALESTINE, souvenir Holy Land one mil token, dated as (1927). Red brown, nearly uncirculated.
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Lot 1193 This lot
PENANG (PULU PENANG OR PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND), East India Company silver half dollar, 1788, ...
Estimate $15,000
Lot 1194
PERU, Ferdinand VI, silver two reales, 1756 JM Lima mint(KM.53). Good very fine.
Estimate $150
Lot 1195
PHILIPPINES, USA administration, 5 centavos, 1931 (KM.175); 20 centavos, 1904S (KM.166); 50 centavos, 1903, 1904, ...
Estimate $200