Lot 5434

Sale 78 · Important Australian & World Coins & Banknotes, The Lampard Collection, The James Atkinson Collection

Indo-Portuguese, Malacca, Manuel I (1495-1521), tin bastardo, first issue (1511) (39.40 grams), 37 mm., 6mm thick, obv. D M P R DE PV SOR DIE MALA, armillary sphere, six lines of latitude, rev. CRVX XPI NOSTRE SPES VNICA, cross of christ, (SS M.11, Vaz E.1.16, Gomez [p.116 noted R2 and large colour plate]). Good fine and rare.

See note above.