Travancore ME1082 1/4 rupee
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This specimen was lot 2729 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $4,600. The catalog description[1] noted, "TRAVANCORE: Rama Varma VI, 1885-1924, AR 1/4 rupee, ME1082 (1906), bold VF, R." This type was struck ME 1082-1106 and is fairly scarce. Travancore was a princely state on the SW tip of India adjacent to the Madras presidency. The later dates are posthumous. This example realized twenty-three times the catalog value.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: 2.72 g, 0.950 fine silver, 20 mm diameter, this specimen 2.68 g.
Catalog reference: KM-52.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 51, featuring the Howard Daniel III Collection of Asian Coins, the Almer H. Orr III Collection of World Coins and the Joe Sedillot Collection of German Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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