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<p>Created page with &quot;<a href="/index.php/File:SA41-1364o.jpg" title="File:SA41-1364o.jpg">300px|thumb|from Stephen Album sale 41, lot 1364</a> <a href="/index.php/File:SA41-1364r.jpg" title="File:SA41-1364r.jpg">300px|thumb</a> This specimen was lot 1364 in Stephen Album sale 41 (Santa Rosa...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Image:SA41-1364o.jpg|300px|thumb|from Stephen Album sale 41, lot 1364]]<br /> [[Image:SA41-1364r.jpg|300px|thumb]]<br /> <br /> This specimen was lot 1364 in Stephen Album sale 41 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2021), where it sold for $900. The catalog description&lt;sup&gt;[1]&lt;/sup&gt; noted, &quot;[[Ceylon|CEYLON]]: George III, 1760-1820, AE 2 stiver, 1815, elephant left, much original red mint luster! PCGS graded MS63 BN.&quot; This double stiver piece was machine struck at London. This mix of stivers and rixdollars was inherited by the British from the Dutch, who occupied the island until 1796. Decimal coinage was instituted in 1870. Ceylon attained her independence in 1948 after the British left India and is now known as Sri Lanka.<br /> <br /> ''Recorded mintage:'' 1,920,000 + proofs.<br /> <br /> ''Specification:'' copper.<br /> <br /> ''Catalog reference:'' KM-82.1 (shown here) or KM 82.2 (rose below bust).<br /> <br /> ''[[Bibliography|Source:]]''<br /> * Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed.'', Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.<br /> * &lt;sup&gt;[1]&lt;/sup&gt;Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, ''Auction 41, featuring the Dick Nanta Collection of Giray Khans, Part II, the Charles Opitz Collection of Ethnographic Money, Part II, and the Allan F. Pacela Collection of Chinese Coins.'' Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2021.<br /> <br /> ''Link to:''<br /> * [[Ceylon 1815 1/48 rixdollar|1815 1/48 rixdollar]]<br /> * [[Ceylon 1815 1/24 rixdollar|1815 1/24 rixdollar]]<br /> * [[Ceylon 1815 1/2 stiver]]<br /> * [[Ceylon 1815 stiver]]<br /> * [[Coins and currency dated 1815]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Selections from Stephen Album sale 41]]</div>

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