Singapore Merchants AH 1250 keping token
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This specimen was lot 74498 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2022), where it sold for $216. The catalog description[1] noted, "MALAYA. British East India Company. Singapore Merchants issues. Fighting Cock series: C. R. Read. Copper Keping Token, AH 1250 (1835). Soho (Birmingham) Mint. NGC AU-55. This Cock has only been delicately handled with light friction on the head of the bird and is engagingly attractive." This type is listed by the SCWC under Netherlands East Indies. This token could also be filed under Malaya or the Straits Settlements as it was intended to circulate throughout the region.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: KM-Tn2; Prid-33.
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- Passon, Tom, Catalogus van de Munten van de Nederlandse Gebieden Overzee, vanaf 1601 tot heden, Apeldoorn, Netherlands, 2022.
- Scholten, C., The Coins of the Dutch Overseas Territories, 1601-1948, Amsterdam: Jacques Schulman, 1953.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The February 2022 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients & World Coins, Featuring Selections from the Kings Norton Mint Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.
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