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[[Image:SA43-910.jpg|550px|thumb|Stephen Album sale 43, lot 910]]
 
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This specimen was lot 910 in Stephen Album sale 43 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2022), where it sold for $3,120. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "TRAVANCORE: Rama Varma VI, 1885-1924, AR ½ rupee, 1889, a wonderful lustrous mint state example! PCGS graded MS64." This type was accompanied by a quarter rupee (KM 37).
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This specimen was lot 910 in Stephen Album sale 43 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2022), where it sold for $3,120. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "TRAVANCORE: Rama Varma VI, 1885-1924, AR ½ rupee, 1889, a wonderful lustrous mint state example! PCGS graded MS64." This type was accompanied by a quarter rupee ([[Travancore 1889 1/4 rupee|KM 37]]). Maharaja Moolam Thirunal Rama Varma V ruled 1885-1924.
  
 
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* [[Travancore 1881 sovereign Fr-1403]]
 
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* [[Travancore (1888-89) 1/4 chuckram]]
 
* [[Travancore (1888-89) 1/2 chuckram]]
 
* [[Travancore (1888-89) 1/2 chuckram]]
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* [[Travancore 1889 1/4 rupee]]
 
* [[Travancore (1901) 2 chuckrams]]
 
* [[Travancore (1901) 2 chuckrams]]
 
* [[Travancore (1906-35) 4 cash]]
 
* [[Travancore (1906-35) 4 cash]]

Latest revision as of 16:40, 16 May 2025

Stephen Album sale 43, lot 910

This specimen was lot 910 in Stephen Album sale 43 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2022), where it sold for $3,120. The catalog description[1] noted, "TRAVANCORE: Rama Varma VI, 1885-1924, AR ½ rupee, 1889, a wonderful lustrous mint state example! PCGS graded MS64." This type was accompanied by a quarter rupee (KM 37). Maharaja Moolam Thirunal Rama Varma V ruled 1885-1924.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 5.44 g, silver.

Catalog reference: KM-38.

Source:

  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 43, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2021.

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