World Silver & Bronze
Lot 3018 World Silver & Bronze
Estimate $180
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BURMA, standard weights of the Burmese kings, set of six of the bird 'Duck series' weights issued 1853-1878, weights 329, 168, 77.4, 31.7, 15.6, 9.0 grams corresponding to 20, 10, 5, 2, 1, and 1/2 Kyats. (Robinson and Shaw, The Coins and Banknotes of Burma, Chapter 5, pp.31-4 [figure 3 and 11, p.32], M.2831-5). Mostly very fine. (6)
Robinson and Shaw show a table on p.34 of the range of weights for each standard weight of the various types and they vary by as much as 10% from high to low.
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