Indian Coins
Lot 2306 SESSION 9 (2.30PM WEDNESDAY 26TH JULY) Indian Coins
Estimate $150
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SOLD $200
INDIA, British, EIC, Bombay Presidency, Indian Design Bombay Minting, fifth rupee in the name of Shah Jahan II (A.H. 1131, June-July 1719), year Regnal Year 1, issued June-July 1719, (Pridmore 34, KM. SAC P.34). Round flan with subdued blue and gold tone, and an exceptional strike, extremely fine and very rare.
Ex Glendining's 1964 and Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, Noble Numismatics Sale 48 (lot 2052) & Sale 124 (lot 4218).
This piece was not in the Pridmore collection and has a much better mint reading than the Pridmore illustrated piece. To the cataloguer's knowledge this is the first piece of this very rare EIC issue of this ruler ever to be auctioned.
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