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Auction: 19025 - Ancient, Indian and Islamic, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 1679

East India Company, under Elizabeth I (1588-1603), 8-Testerns, 'Portcullis Money', trade coinage. Tower, 27.32g, m.m. o, elizabeth. d.' g.' ang.' fr.' et. hib.' regina., crowned square-topped shield dividing crowned e-r, rev. posvi. devm. adivtorem. mevm., crowned portcullis (Pridmore 1; S.2607A), surface cracks in centre of obverse, slightly double-struck on crown on reverse, good fine, rare

provenance
"Duplicates of the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg", Adolph Hess Nachfolger, 29-30 May 1911, lot 313 - 285 marks (~ £13.18.6)
Dr Jakob Reichel collection bequested en bloc to Hermitage, 1857
'Die Reichelsche Muenzsammlung', 1843, Vol. VI, no. 469, this coin

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