Watch List notes:

TENASSERIM-PEGU: Anonymous, 17th-18th century, cast large tin coin (52.70g), 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), fabulous casting, surely the finest we have seen, cast from the same mold as Lot 1869 in this auction, AU, RRR. The reverse was published and its legend read by Elizabeth Moore, "Dawei Buddhist culture: a hybrid borderland," in Myanmar Historical Research Journal, vol. 21 (June 2011).

Estimate: 500-700 USD