Hyderabad AH1315 ashrafi
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This specimen was lot 724 in Steve Album Auction 52 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2025), where it sold for $1,140. The catalog description[1] noted, "HYDERABAD: Mir Mahbub Ali Khan, 1869-1911, AV ashrafi, Farkhanda-Bunyan, AH1315, one tiny testmark on the reverse center, not noted on the slab, gorgeous strike, ANACS graded AU55." Hyderabad was one of the few princely states wealthy enough to have an extensive series of gold coins. This type was struck AH 1286-1318. This date is not known with a regnal year, which is probably just as well as it would have been off the flan on this example.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 11.18 g, 0.910 fine gold.
Catalog reference: KM Y22.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- 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 Dustin Wagner, Auction 52, featuring the Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld Collection and the Almer H. Orr III Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2025.
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