Tripura TE 1341 rupee
This specimen was lot 745 in Steve Album Auction 55 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2026), where it sold for $780. The catalog description[1] noted, "TRIPURA: Vira Vikrama Kishora, 1923-1947, AR rupee, six-line text, also citing Queen Kanchan Prabha // lion rampant left, milled edge, XF." The Tripura kingdom existed before the coming of the Mughals in the sixteenth century. The Mughals managed to seize the flat part of the kingdom but were never able to penetrate the hill districts. The British established a protectorate over the kingdom in 1809. They called the state "Hill Tipperah" to distinguish it from a district in Bengal state called plain "Tipperah". Altho surrounded to the north, west and south by Bangladesh, it is still today part of India. This semi-medallic coin has been moved from the standard SCWC to the Unusual World Coins. It was struck previously in Tring Era 1338 (1927).
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: 11.4 g, silver, 29.6 mm diameter, this specimen 11.47 g.
Catalog reference: KM X8, formerly KM-409, R&B-305.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Unusual World Coins, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2011.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Hanbing Feng, Auction 55, featuring Selections from the Swamperbob Gurney Collection of Cap & Ray 8 Reales, the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins and the 1914 Collection of World Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2026.
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