Dhar 1887 1/2 pice
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This specimen was lot 2781 in Stephen Album sale 37 (Santa Rosa, CA, June 2020), where it sold for $95.20. The catalog description[1] noted, "DHAR: Anand Rao III, 1860-1898, AE ½ pice, 1887, EF." Dhar was a princely state on the Narbudda River, neighboring Indore and Gwalior. Its entire output of milled coinage was a twelfth anna, a half pice (shown here) and a quarter anna, also of 1887. Presentation pieces were made in silver and gold.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
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 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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