Hong Kong
Lot 2380 SESSION 8 (2.30pm Wednesday) Hong Kong
Estimate $300
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $650
HONG KONG - CHINA, British Trade dollar, silver imitation, 1908, the mint letter replaced by an incuse dot, and the value in English replaced by FOR JEWELLERY (Pr 31). Good very fine and rare.
Ex W.J. Noble Collection, Noble Numismatics Sale 61 (lot 1505) and previously from the F. Pridmore Collection (lot 346) and the Inveruglas Collection (lot 943). Believed by Pridmore to have been produced in Canton to deceive Chinese and Malays as only the English value one dollar was removed.
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