World Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 3328 SESSION 13 (11.30AM THURSDAY 31ST JULY) 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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