Comoros AH 1308-A 10 centimes
This specimen was lot 6677 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2022), where it sold for $168. The catalog description[1] noted, "COMOROS. 10 Centimes, AH 1308 (1890)-A. Paris Mint. NGC MS-64 Red Brown. A handsome, well struck example of the type, with bright orange to red-brick color in the protected areas." The Comoros, an archipelago off the east coast of Africa, was dominated by many foreign powers until attaining independence in 1975. The ten centimes coin shown was minted in Paris (with the torch privy mark) in AH1308, or about 1891 AD, during the time that Comoros was a French protectorate. It was accompanied by bronze five centimes and silver five francs coins.
Recorded mintage: 50,000 (fasces privy mark) plus 100,000 (torch privy mark, KM 2.2).
Specification: bronze.
Catalog reference: KM-2.1; Gad-3.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Gadoury, Victor, and George Cousinié, Monnaies Coloniales Françaises, 1670-1988, 2me Éd., Monaco: Éditions Victor Gadoury, 1988.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The 2022 NYINC Sale: World and Ancient Coins, featuring the Mark and Lottie Salton Collection and the Pat Johnson Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.
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