Hyderabad AH 1322(39) rupee
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This specimen was lot 75448 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for $192. The catalog description[1] noted, "INDIA. Hyderabad. Rupee, AH 1322 Year 39 (1904). Hyderabad Mint. Mir Mahbub Ali Khan II (under Edward VII as Emperor). PCGS MS-63+." The princely state of Hyderabad was one of the last absorbed into the Republic of India in 1948. It was also the largest state and residence of the last remnant of Mughal suzerainty in central India. Many of the issues, including this one, show the Chahar Minar gateway on the obverse.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 11.17 g, 0.818 fine silver, 30 mm diameter, reeded edge.
Catalog reference: KM-Y40.1.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, February 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients, World Coins & World Paper Money, David B. Simpson Medals & World Coins Part 1, Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection, and Selections from the L. E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
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