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Bengal Presidency: INO Shah Alam II, Azimabad, Gold 1/64 Mohur

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Indian Coins - Colonial Start Price:240,000.00 CAD Estimated At:240,000.00 - 300,000.00 CAD
Bengal Presidency: INO Shah Alam II, Azimabad, Gold 1/64 Mohur
Calcutta Mint: post-1761 issues, First gold coinage, gold Sixty-Fourth Mohur in the name of ‘Shah ‘Alam II (AH 1173-1221 / 1759-1806 AD), presumed Kalkata, Ry 5 [1763-4], sikka zad bar haft kishwar saya fazl ilah hami din muhammad shah alam badshah [defender of the religion of Muhammad, Shah ‘Alam emperor, shadow of the divine favour, put his stamp on the seven climes], rev. zarb [––] sanah 5 julus maimanat manus [struck at [––] in the 5th year of his reign of tranquil prosperity], 0.17g/3h (Prid. – [not in Sale]; Stevens 2.6, this coin cited; Stevens website image 1297i, second coin illustrated; Kulkarni, Numismatic Digest vols. 27-8, p.117, this coin; KM. –; F 1525g). Extremely fine and of the highest rarity, only one other specimen on the Stevens website [certified and graded NGC MS 65].