Travancore ME1116 1/4 rupee
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This specimen was lot 2355 in Stephen Album sale 27 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2017), where it sold for $235. The catalog description[1] noted, "TRAVANCORE: Bala Rama Varma II, 1924-1949, AR ¼ rupee, ME1116 (1941). NGC graded MS65+." This two year type (ME 1116, 1118) is fairly common. Proofs exist.
Recorded mintage: 126,000.
Specifications: 2.66 g, 0.500 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM-66.
- 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 27, featuring the Dr. Paul Stevens Collection of Indian Coins, Part VI, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2016.
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