Awadh AH 1269(6) rupee
This specimen was lot 71800 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, October 2020), where it sold for $288. The catalog description[1] noted, "INDIA. Awadh. Rupee, AH 1269 Year 6 (1857/8). Lucknow Mint. Wajid Ali Khan. NGC MS-64. A boldly struck and lustrous near-Gem example with lustrous surfaces and good definition of the devices the surfaces displaying light attractive tone offering good eye appeal." This type was struck AH 1267-1272. A succession dispute in Awadh resulted in British intervention and overlordship. Resentment of this and other acts led to the Indian Mutiny of 1857, which was centered at Awadh's capital Lucknow.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, 10.7-11.6 g.
Catalog reference: KM-365.3.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The October 2020 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.
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