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[[Image:SAlbum 55-2618.jpg|550px|thumb|Steve Album Auction 55, lot 2618]]
[[Image:India Travancore 1907a.jpg|500px|thumb|Travancore in 1907]]

This specimen was lot 2618 in Steve Album Auction 55 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2026), where it sold for $312. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "TRAVANCORE: Rama Varma VI, 1885-1924, AE chuckram, ND (1906-35), a superb red lustrous example! PCGS graded MS65 RD." Travancore was a princely state on the SW tip of [[India]] adjacent to the Madras presidency. This chuckram was struck for the maharajah in sufficient quantity that it is common today, altho this example realized twelve times the catalog value. One rupee was 28 chuckrams.

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown. 

''Specification:'' 9.98 g, copper, 26.6 mm diameter. 

''Catalog reference:'' KM-49.

''[[Bibliography|Source:]]''
* 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 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. 

''Link to:''
* [[Travancore (1860-1901) chuckram]]
* [[Travancore (1906-35) 4 cash]]
* [[Travancore (1906-28) 2 chuckrams]]
* [[Travancore ME1082 1/4 rupee|ME1082 (1906) quarter rupee]]
* [[Travancore (1911-35) 8 cash]]
* [[Coins and currency dated 1906]]

[[Category:Selections from Stephen Album sale 55]][[Category:Coinage of the Indian states]]