Travancore ME1087 1/2 rupee

Steve Album sale 38, lot 2653

Travancore in 1907

This specimen was lot 2653 in Stephen Album sale 38 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2020), where it sold for $357. The catalog description^[1] noted, "TRAVANCORE: Rama Varma VI, 1885-1924, AR ½ rupee, ME1087 (1912), light obverse stain, otherwise lustrous, Unc." 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.

Recorded mintage: 300,000.

Specification: 5.44 g, 0.950 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM-53.

Source:

• 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 38, featuring the Dabestani Collection of Persian Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.

Link to:

• Travancore (1906-28) 2 chuckrams
• Travancore (1911-35) 8 cash
• Travancore ME1087 fanam
• Travancore ME1087 1/4 rupee
• Travancore ME1103 1/2 rupee
• Coins and currency dated 1911