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Auction 45  26-29 Jan 2023
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Lot 1256

Starting price: 220 USD
Price realized: 1500 USD
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BURMA: TENASSERIM-PEGU: Anonymous, 17th/18th century, cast large tin coin (51.51g), Robinson, Phayre-Plate III.3 (obverse only), 69mm; mythical hintha bird facing right, with long tail rising above, some 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 lovely example! Choice EF, RR. 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: 250-350 USD
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