Awadh AH 1240(6) 1/2 rupee
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This specimen was lot 1153 in Stephen Album sale 37 (Santa Rosa, CA, June 2020), where it sold for $416.50. The catalog description[1] noted, "AWADH: Ghazi-ud-Din Haidar, 1819-1827, AR ½ rupee, Lucknow, AH1240 year 6, VF, RR." This type was struck years 1-8. Lucknow later became the center of the Indian Mutiny.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 5.35-5.8 g, silver, this specimen 5.47 g.
Catalog reference: KM-163.
- Album, Stephen, Checklist of Islamic Coins, 3rd Ed., Santa Rosa, Stephen Album Rare Coins, 2011.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 37, featuring the Gamal Amer Collection of Egyptian Coins and the Ahmed Sultan Collection of Ottoman Coins, Part II, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.
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