Sikh Empire VS1841 rupee KM-64
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This specimen was lot 851 in Stephen Album sale 41 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2021), where it sold for $180. The catalog description[1] noted, "SIKH EMPIRE: AR rupee, Lahore, VS1841, first years of the reform type (nanakshahi instead of gobindshahi), superb example on broad flan, EF." This product of the Lahore mint is noted for VS1841-1856. Other mints included Amritsar and Multan.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 10.7-11.3 g, silver, this specimen 11.15 g.
Catalog reference: KM-64, Herrli-08.04.
- 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 41, featuring the Dick Nanta Collection of Giray Khans, Part II, the Charles Opitz Collection of Ethnographic Money, Part II, and the Allan F. Pacela Collection of Chinese Coins. Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2021.
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