| Stephen Album Rare Coins > Auction 45 | Auction date: 26 January 2023 |
| Lot number: 1250 Price realized: 650 USD (Approx. 599 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: BURMA: TENASSERIM-PEGU: Anonymous, 17th-18th century, cast large tin coin (65.18g), Robinson-18 (Plate 10.1), 69.6mm, mythical hintha bird facing right, Burmese legend around, which means "city of great happiness" // knotted dragon above the sea, wonderfully bold, beautiful example! EF to About Unc, RRR. From the same mold as Lot 992 in our Auction 43. This is the 5th known coin of this type, all sold in our Auctions 33, 35, 43, and this Auction, all from the same molds. Estimate: 400-500 USD |  |
Match 1:
| Stephen Album Rare Coins > Auction 45 | Auction date: 26 January 2023 |
| Lot number: 1249 Price realized: 600 USD (Approx. 553 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: BURMA: TENASSERIM-PEGU: Anonymous, 17th/18th century, cast large tin coin (71.86g), Robinson-18 (Plate 10.1), 69.5mm; mythical hintha bird facing right, Burmese legend around, which translates as "city of great happiness" // knotted dragon above the sea, wonderful example! beautiful EF, RR. Four examples of this type has been sold in our auctions 33-43, but this is cast from a different pair of molds. Estimate: 250-350 USD |  |
Match 2:
| Stephen Album Rare Coins > Auction 45 | Auction date: 26 January 2023 |
| Lot number: 2493 Price realized: 850 USD (Approx. 783 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: BURMA: TENASSERIM-PEGU: Anonymous, 17th/18th century, cast large tin coin (66.53g), Robinson-11 (Plate 8:2), 70mm; thin mythical hintha bird facing right, with long tail rising above, long feathers along its back, and holding what is probably a 9-leaf branch in its beak // 3-line Burmese legend (type B2), VF, RR. Robinson suggests that the obverse of this type imitates the obverse of the common lead weights; the crude production suggests that this is a local imitation or emergency casting, similar to the examples found in the Perak hoard. Estimate: 120-180 USD |  |
Match 3:
| Stephen Album Rare Coins > Auction 45 | Auction date: 26 January 2023 |
| Lot number: 1251 Price realized: 800 USD (Approx. 737 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: BURMA: TENASSERIM-PEGU: Anonymous, 17th-18th century, cast very large tin coin (182.59g), based on Robinson-18 (Plate 10.1), 71.5mm; mythical hintha bird facing right, Burmese legend around, which translates as "city of great happiness" // knotted dragon above the sea; local issue produced by molds copied from a normal example of this type; crudely cast and more than double the normal weight for this type, crude VF to EF, RRR. Estimate: 180-260 USD |  |
Match 4:
| Stephen Album Rare Coins > Auction 45 | Auction date: 26 January 2023 |
| Lot number: 1256 Price realized: 1,500 USD (Approx. 1,382 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: BURMA: TENASSERIM-PEGU: Anonymous, 17th/18th century, cast large tin coin (51.51g), Robinson, Phayre-Plate III.3 (obverse only), 69mm; mythical hintha bird facing right, with long tail rising above, some extra feathers along its back, and holding a 9-leaf branch in its beak // Burmese ta-weh (for the city of Dawei in Tenasserim Province); a lovely example! Choice EF, RR. The reverse was published and its legend read by Elizabeth Moore in "Dawei Buddhist culture: a hybrid borderland", in Myanmar Historical Research Journal, vol. 21 (June 2011). Estimate: 250-350 USD |  |
Match 5:
| Stephen Album Rare Coins > Auction 45 | Auction date: 26 January 2023 |
| Lot number: 2497 Price realized: 1,300 USD (Approx. 1,198 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: BURMA: TENASSERIM-PEGU: Anonymous, 17th-18th century, cast large tin coin (83.83g), Robinson-24 (Plate 9.4, different molds), 68.4mm; knotted dragon left with long protruding pointed tongue, plain background // jumbled meaningless Tavoy "legend"; extremely rare type with the dragon facing left instead of right, EF, RRR. Estimate: 150-250 USD |  |
