Tranquebar 1831 4 cash
This specimen was lot 2801 in Stephen Album sale 50 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $144. The catalog description[1] noted, "DANISH INDIA: TRANQUEBAR: Frederick VI, 1808-1839, AE 4 kas, 1831, mint error: retrograde S in KAS, very rare date for this error, VF, RRR, 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 subtype, with the reversed "S", is listed for 1817 and 1831. The regular issue, KM 159.1, was struck 1825 and 1830-39. This specimen realized one-third of the catalog value.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 2.40 g, copper, this specimen 2.42 g.
Catalog reference: KM-159.2, Gray, Jensen-382.
- 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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