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Auction 33  17-19 Jan 2019
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Lot 1004

Starting price: 300 USD
Price realized: 425 USD
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TENASSERIM-PEGU: Anonymous, 17th-18th century, cast large tin coin (46.38g), Robinson-, Phayre-Plate III.3 (obverse only), 69mm, mythical hintha bird facing right, with long tail rising above, extra feathers along its back, and holding a 9-leaf branch in its beak // Burmese ta-weh (for the city of Dawei in Tenasserim Province), evenly preserved and lovely, EF, RRR. The reverse was published and the legend read by Elizabeth Moore, "Dawei Buddhist culture: a hybrid borderland," in Myanmar Historical Research Journal, vol. 21 (June 2011).

Estimate: 350-450 USD
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