Kishangarh AH 1198/24 rupee KM-C10.1
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This specimen was lot 2506 in Steve Album Auction 55 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2026), where it sold for $105. The catalog description[1] noted, "KISHANGARH: Birad Singh, 1781-1788, AR rupee, Kishangarh, AH(11)98 year 24, clear date & regnal year, bold VF, R." This type is listed for years 24 and 25 and is common. This example shows only a partial AH date but one can see that all the digits were intended to be there. Kishangarh was a princely state adjacent to Ajmer-Merwara in the Rajputana. The first ruler, Kishan Singh, was granted his domain by the Mughal emperor Jahangir in the early seventeenth century.
Recorded mintage: unknown but common.
Specification: 10.75-10.85 g, silver, this specimen 10.84 g.
Catalog reference: KM-C10.1.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Hanbing Feng, Auction 55, featuring Selections from the Swamperbob Gurney Collection of Cap & Ray 8 Reales, the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins and the 1914 Collection of World Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2026.
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