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Auction 43  12-15 May 2022
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Lot 993

Starting price: 140 USD
Price realized: 325 USD
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TENASSERIM-PEGU: Anonymous, 17th-19th century, cast large tin coin (49.98g), Robinson-, Phayre-Plate III.3 (obverse only), 68.6mm; mythical hintha bird facing right, with long tail rising above, many 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); a superb example! choice EF-AU. The reverse was published and its legend read by Elizabeth Moore in "Dawei Buddhist culture: a hybrid borderland," in Myanmar Historical Research Journal, vol. 21 (June 2011).

Estimate: 180-240 USD
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