Ceylon 1910 25 cents

Stack's Bowers 2021 NYINC sale, lot 23318

This specimen was lot 23318 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (Newport Beach, CA, January 2021), where it sold for $110. The catalog description^[1] noted, "CEYLON. 25 Cents, 1910. London Mint. PCGS MS-63 Gold Shield. Pop: 2; none graded finer by PCGS. A well struck and softly lustrous coin with a faint almond tone." This type was struck 1902-03 and 1907-10 and is not rare. The twenty-five cents was the same weight as the Indian quarter rupee tho lower in fineness. The last silver 25 cents was struck in 1926. Ceylon, famous for tea, attained its independence in 1948 after the British left India and is now known as Sri Lanka.

Recorded mintage: 800,000, the most common date.

Specification: 2.92 g, 0.800 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM-98; Prid-137.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The January 2021 NYINC Sale: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Oro del Nuevo Mundo and Matt Orsini Collections, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.

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