Cooch Behar SE1509 rupee

Steve Album Auction 54, lot 2253

Bengal in 1942, from Hammond's atlas

This specimen was lot 2253 in Steve Album Auction 54 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2026), where it sold for $204. The catalog description^[1] noted, "COOCH BEHAR: Lakshmi Narayan, 1587-1627, AR rupee, SE1509 (1587), with Sakabda date 98 below the four-digit date 1509, XF." Cooch Behar is today in the strip of India which divides Bhutan from Bangladesh.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver, this specimen 10.21 g.

Catalog reference: R&B-22.

Sources:

• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Hanbing Feng, Auction 54, featuring selections from the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2025.

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