Maratha AH 1189/25 rupee KM-228
This specimen was lot 2540 in Stephen Album sale 50 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $132. The catalog description[1] noted, "MARATHA CONFEDERACY: AR rupee, Bagalkot, AH1189 year 15, in the name of the deceased Alamgir II; bold strike, NGC graded MS63." 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 type for AN 1172 and 1189. Other rupees struck at Bagalkot include KM 257 (struck AH 1179, 1181, 1189) and KM 227 (dated AH 1121, noted as a counterfeit).
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 10.7-11.6 g, silver.
Catalog reference: KM-228.
- 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.
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