Maratha AH (118)5/12 rupee KM-313
This specimen was lot 2546 in Stephen Album sale 50 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $156. The catalog description[1] noted, "MARATHA CONFEDERACY: AR rupee, Shahjahanabad, AH(118)5 year 12, in the name of Shah Alam II; assigned to the Maratha by the floral symbols on obverse & reverse and the star left of the regnal year on the reverse, NGC graded MS62, R." The Marathas were an alliance of Hindu princely families formed to resist the encroachment of the Mughal Empire in the seventeenth century. Major names included the Peshwas, the Gaekwars, the Bhonslas, the Holkars and the Sindhias, all of whom formed independent states when the confederacy broke up at the end of the eighteenth century. The SCWC lists this mint (KM 313) for AH 1173-1174. Rupees listed for year 12 include KM 256 (Aurangnagar), KM 269 (Balwantnagar), KM 251 (Ahmadabad) and KM 258 (Burhanpur). To add to the confusion, year 12 rupees have different AH dates depending on which mint struck them.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 10.7-11.6 g, silver.
Catalog reference: KM-313.
- 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 Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 50, featuring selections from the Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld Collection, the Hakim Hamidi Collection, the Almer H. Orr III Collection and the Solar Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
Links to:
- Maratha AH 1177/3 rupee, Kora mint
- AH 1189/25 rupee, Bagalkot mint
- Maratha AH 1198/26 rupee KM-300 Bindraban mint
- Coins and currency dated 1771