Mysore AM1216/6 pagoda
This specimen was lot 926 in Stephen Album sale 47 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2023), where it sold for $9,000. The catalog description[1] noted, "MYSORE: Tipu Sultan, 1782-1799, AV pagoda (faruqi), Dharwar, AM1216 year 6, KM-, Henderson, Zeno, Dharwar is the city name, called by the honorific title Khurshid-Sawad on nearly all coins of that city. The name Dharwar occurs on two varieties of the pagoda, one with the Persian "H" and the city name on the obverse (KM-99, Hend-488), the other with the city name below the denomination faruqi, followed by the letter H and the year AM1216, faint scratches on edge, lustrous fields, Unc, RRRR, ex Charles W. Lueders III Collection. This example, a new discovery, unpublished and presumably unique!"
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 3.40 g, gold, this specimen 3.42 g.
Catalog reference: KM-A110?
- Album, Stephen, Checklist of Islamic Coins, 3rd Ed. Santa Rosa, Stephen Album Rare Coins, 2011.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 47, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2023.
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