A piece of Sarawak 20 cents secured by PCGS in AU55 has sold for USD 1300 +18% (RM4.35/USD) by Stacks Bowers and Ponterio in August 2015. This coin is of the Sarawak scarce coin series in which the mintage was only 25,000 pieces. A piece in numerical grade or good in condition is definitely hard to grab from numismatics market, it may due to the moist climate, poor in economics, and a huge number of silver coinages were snatched by Japanese Military as warfare in 1940s. According to the PCGS and NGC population in 08/10/2015, it was only about 7-8 pieces which scored a numerical grade until today (with the assumption there is no cross-over grading among the grading companies, if true, the number will be even lesser).
In 2014, there was also another piece in NGC AU58 which had been sold for USD 2,350 by Heritage Auction in Sep 2014 (RM3.20/USD). Again, it could evidence that this coin is never cheap although in AU condition.
Thanks for the comments of Mr. James Soh,
Regards,
08/10/2015
