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Triton XIX Sessions 3 & 4 - Adams Collection  6 January 2016
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Lot 2663

Estimate: 1500 USD
Price realized: 10 000 USD
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SRI LANKA (CEYLON), Colonial. British. Victoria. 1837-1901. Proof AV 'Half Cent' (18mm, 4.71 g, 12h). Calcutta mint. Dated 1891 (though a later restrike). Diademed head left / Talipot palm. Cf. KM 91 (for type in copper); Friedberg –. Proof, some scattered marks. Off-metal strike in gold.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Sotheby's (20 April 1993), lot 587 (part of); Palace Collections of Egypt (King Farouk – Sotheby's, 24 February 1954), lot 861 (part of).
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