View source for Kutch 1943/VS 2000 adhio

[[Image:Kutch Alb27-2246o.jpg|300px|thumb|from Steve Album sale 27, lot 2246]]
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The Indian Princely State of Kutch is located in a flat expanse of salt marshlands on the western border of India along the Arabian Sea. Partly due to its geographic isolation, Kutch was able to maintain a unique coinage system from its beginnings through to independence from the British in 1947. The first Kutch coins were modelled after those of [[India, Nawanagar|Nawanagar]], from which Kutch officially gained its autonomy in 1617 AD. This was also the year that Kutch obtained the rights to produce coinage in the name of its own rulers.

This specimen was lot 2246 in Stephen Album sale 27 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2017), where it sold for $164.50. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "KUTCH: Vijayarajjii, 1942-1948, AE adhio (½ kori), 1943//VS1999. Also citing George VI, very scarce so nice, NGC graded MS64 RB." One adhio = 4 dhabu = half kori.

''Recorded mintage'': unknown.

''Specifications'': copper. 

''Catalog reference'': KM Y80. 

''[[Bibliography|Sources:]]'' 
* Bright, Richard, ''The Coinage of Kutch'', Dallas, TX: Numismatics International, 1975.
* Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed.,'' Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
* <sup>[1]</sup>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.

''Link to:''
* [[Kutch 1943 / VS 1999 1 payalo|VS 1999 payalo]]
* [[Kutch 1943 / VS 2000 1 trambiyo|VS 2000 trambiyo]]
* [[Kutch 1943 / VS 2000 1 dhinglo|VS 2000 dhinglo]]
* [[Kutch 1943 / VS 2000 1 dhabu|VS 2000 dhabu]]
* [[Kutch 1943/VS 2000 kori|VS 2000 kori]]
* [[Kutch 1944/VS 2001 adhio|VS 2001 adhio]]
* [[Coins and currency dated 1943]]
* return to coins of [[India, Kutch]]

[[Category:Coinage of the Indian states]][[Category:Selections from Stephen Album sale 27]]