Dewas (Senior Branch) 1888 1/4 anna
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This specimen was lot 2077 in Stephen Album sale 27 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2017), where it sold for $411.25. The catalog description[1] noted, "DEWAS SENIOR BRANCH: Victoria, 1857-1901, AE ¼ anna, 1888. Red Brown Unc." Dewas, now in Madya Pradesh in modern India, was a princely state divided into two parts, the junior branch ruling the northern part and the senior branch the southern. The SCWC notes twelfth and quarter annas were struck for both branches in 1888.
Recorded mintage: 484,000 (includes quarter annas struck for Dewas, junior branch).
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: KM-12.
- 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 27, featuring the Dr. Paul Stevens Collection of Indian Coins, Part VI, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2016.
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- Dewas (Senior Branch) 1888 1/12 anna
- Coins and currency dated 1888
- return to coins of India, Dewas State