India, Travancore, pattern sovereign, 1881, in white metal, portrait of Sri Rama Varma Maharaja, rev. arms, two rearing elephants with a conch shell between, plain edge, struck at the Heaton Mint, Birmingham (KM.Pn2), in plastic holder, graded by NGC as Proof 65 Cameo, very rare acquired from Spink & Son in the early 1980s (£3500-4000)