Tranquebar 1816 10 cash
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This specimen was lot 2803 in Stephen Album sale 50 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $84. The catalog description[1] noted, "DANISH INDIA: TRANQUEBAR: Frederick VI, 1808-1839, AE 10 kas, 1816, pleasing VF, R, ex Solar Collection." The Danish fort at Tranquebar was sold to the British in 1845. When the one and two cash were reduced in weight early in the eighteenth century, the four and ten cash were added to supplement the denominations. This type was struck 1816, 1822 and 1838-39. This specimen realized slightly over one-quarter of the catalog value.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 6.00 g, copper, this specimen 5.46 g.
Catalog reference: KM-166, Gray-158, Jensen-364.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Siegs Møntcatalog 2016: Danmark med Omrader, 48 ed., Frederikssund, Siegs Forlag ApS, 2015.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 50, featuring selections from the Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld Collection, the Hakim Hamidi Collection, the Almer H. Orr III Collection and the Solar Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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