Kotah VS1956 rupee
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This specimen was lot 2507 in Steve Album Auction 55 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2026), where it sold for $105. The catalog description[1] noted, "KOTAH: Umed Singh, 1889-1935, AR rupee 11.23 g, Nandgaon, VS1956, special issue for the 10th anniversary of Umed Singh and the 80th birthday of Queen Victoria, bold VF, R." This tiny state was a neighbor of Bundi and Jhalawar. The maharao also issued a nazarana rupee (KM Y7a) and an eighth mohur (KM YA8a) on this occasion.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 11.2 g, silver.
Catalog reference: KM Y7.
- 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 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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