Arcot AH 11xx/7 rupee
This specimen was lot 2700 in Steve Album Auction 55 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2026), where it did not sell. The catalog description[1] noted, "FRENCH INDIA: AR rupee, Arkat, AH11(6x) year 7, in the name of Alamgir II; gently toned and a bold strike, Unc." This rupee is listed in the SCWC for AH 1167, 116x, 1171, 117x and 11xx without regnal date and is rather scarce. This example has a bold regnal date but only part a calendar date. The French established a number of trading stations on the coast of India in the seventeenth century and made a serious challenge to British claims of supremacy in the eighteenth century. After a close run campaign fought during the Seven Years War, British command of the sea told and the French were defeated. Their zone of control was reduced to the trading stations they had long held, including Pondichery. Both the French and the British issued imitations of Arcot rupees.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 11.5 g, silver, this specimen 11.34 g.
Catalog reference: KM-12 (formerly KM 36).
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Hanbing Feng, Auction 55, featuring Selections from the Swamperbob Gurney Collection of Cap & Ray 8 Reales, the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins and the 1914 Collection of World Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2026.
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