Tranquebar 1842 10 cash
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This specimen was lot 968 in Stephen Album sale 39 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2021), where it sold for $312. The catalog description[1] noted, "TRANQUEBAR: Christian VIII, 1839-1845, AE 10 ka, 1842, very rare one-year type, VF, RRR." The Danish fort at Tranquebar was sold to the British East India Company in 1845. This was one of its last issues.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: bronze, this specimen 5.41 g.
Catalog reference: KM-167, Jensen-390.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- 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 39, featuring the John Sylvester, Jr., Collection of Annamese Medals and Orders, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.
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