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Auction 43  12-15 May 2022
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Lot 2129

Starting price: 85 USD
Price realized: 450 USD
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PENANG: East India Company, AE cent (5.75g), 1787, KM-4, Prid-7, bale mark // inscription in Jawi script jezirah perrinsa ab-wailis (Prince of Wales Island), VF. Issued by the Prince of Wales Island colony under British East India Company rule (1786-1805). Cents and ½ cents were struck for Captain Francis Light at the Calcutta Mint the year after he founded the British colony of Penang. They were the second issue of copper coins for the island after the heavy undated uniface cents attributed to 1786. In Penang the standard coin was the Spanish American silver dollar and these coins were valued at 100 to the dollar.

Estimate: 100-140 USD
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