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Auction 37  11-14 Jun 2020
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Lot 1620

Starting price: 260 USD
Price realized: 750 USD
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TENASSERIM-PEGU: Anonymous, 17th-18th century, cast tin large coin (49.75g), 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), same molds as Lot 1866 in our Auction 35; beautifully preserved, choice 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: 300-400 USD
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