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MALAYSIA: PENANG: AE 1/2 cent, 1787, PCGS AU53

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - Asia & Middle-East Start Price:160.00 USD Estimated At:175.00 - 250.00 USD
MALAYSIA: PENANG: AE 1/2 cent, 1787, PCGS AU53
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375.00USD+ buyer's premium (75.00)
This item SOLD at 2026 Sep 18 @ 15:58UTC-07:00 : PDT/MST
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PENANG: AE 1/2 cent, 1787, KM-2.2, Cr-273, Prid-9, United East India Company bale mark, star below // inscription in Jawi script jazirah prins awailis (Prince of Wales Island), PCGS graded AU53. Issued by the Prince of Wales Island colony under British East India Company rule (1786-1805). Cents and ½ cents were struck for Captain Francis Light at the Calcutta Mint the year after he founded the British colony of Penang. They were the second issue of copper coins for the island after the heavy undated uniface cents attributed to 1786. In Penang the standard coin was the Spanish American silver dollar and these coins were valued at 200 to the dollar.