Portuguese India 1903 1/2 tanga
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This specimen was lot 2941 in Stephen Album sale 37 (Santa Rosa, CA, June 2020), where it sold for $119. The catalog description[1] noted, "PORTUGUESE INDIA: Carlos I, 1889-1908, AE ½ tanga, 1903, small lamination defect on obverse, Unc." This type was also struck 1901 and is not rare. It was struck by the British under contract.
Recorded mintage: 600,000.
Specification: bronze.
Catalog reference: KM-16.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Alberto Gomes and Francisco Antonio Magro, Moedas Portuguesas e do Território Que Hoje é Portugal: Catálogo das Moedas Cunhadas para o Continentes e Ilhas Adjacentes, para os Territórios do Ultramar e Grão-Mestres Portugueses da Ordem de Malta, 6ª Edição, Lisbon: Associação Numismática de Portugal, 2013.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 37, featuring the Gamal Amer Collection of Egyptian Coins and the Ahmed Sultan Collection of Ottoman Coins, Part II, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.
Link to:
- 1903 ¼ tanga
- 1903 rupia
- Coins and currency dated 1903
- return to coins of Portuguese India