Ceylon
Lot 2298 SESSION 8 (2.30pm Wednesday) Ceylon
Estimate $400
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $550
CEYLON, Dent Bros. & Co., Great Western Estate/blank, in brass (31 mm), undated but circa 1875 (Pr.29). P. Fernando, Coffee Picker's Chit/Polo Fernando Colombo 4«d, another 2¬d (upright rectangle), Fowlie, Richmond & Co., F.R. & Co. 1866/Jampetty Mills, in brass, circa 1870 (Pr.35). Freudenberg & Co, Colombo/blank, FM incuse on bronze blank (local manufacture)(Pr. 37) except countermarked 12, in aluminium (Pr. 36) J.P. Green & Co, in bronze (1858 for Colpetty Mills) (3 - two different dies, one with D further from halfpenny (ex Ford) (Pr.38, the die varieties not previously noted). Good fine - good extremely fine, some very rare. (9)
Ex W.J. Noble Collection, Noble Numismatics Sale 61 (lot 1523) and previously the second last ex Carnegie Museum of Natural History (lot 879 part), the last from M. Freehill in 1967, the others ex R.J. Ford Collection. (lots 269, 270 and 271 part).
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