Bindraban 1859 1/4 rupee
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This specimen was lot 2644 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $216. The catalog description[1] noted, "BINDRABAN: AR 1/4 rupee, 1859, portrait of Queen Victoria on obverse with katar to her left; local issue of Mathura, VF, R." This type was struck 1858-59 and 1867 along with half rupees and rupees. Bindraban was the site of a mint during the Maratha domination of the eighteenth century but these nineteenth century issues had no authority and likely circulated only locally.
Recorded mintage: unknown but not common.
Specification: 2.75-2.90 g, silver, this specimen 2.67 g.
Catalog reference: KM-16.
- 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 51, featuring the Howard Daniel III Collection of Asian Coins, the Almer H. Orr III Collection of World Coins and the Joe Sedillot Collection of German Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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