Catalogue
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.
Estimate $15,000
Passed in
USA, colonial, William Wood's Rosa Americana Coinage 1722-24, George I, twopence in bath metal, undated (1722) (Breen 8; Martin 2.1-B.1). Chocolate brown patina, well struck, uncirculated and one of, if not, the finest known.
Estimate $10,000
SOLD $6,500