Travancore ME1106 1/2 rupee

from Stephen Album sale 41, lot 870

Travancore in 1907

This specimen was lot 870 in Stephen Album sale 41 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2021), where it sold for $2,040. The catalog description^[1] noted, "TRAVANCORE: Bala Rama Varma II, 1924-1949, AR ½ rupee, ME1196 (1929), a fantastic quality example! PCGS graded Specimen 66." This type was struck ME1084-1087 and 1103-07 in the name of Rama Varma VI, who died in 1924. Travancore was a princely state on the SW tip of India adjacent to the Madras presidency.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

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 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.

Link to:

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