Ganja AH 1195 abbasi

from the Stack's Bowers February 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 75718

This specimen was lot 75718 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for $216. The catalog description^[1] noted, "ISLAMIC KINGDOMS. Khanate of Ganja. Abbasi, AH 1195 (1780/81). Muhammad Hasan Khan. NGC MS-63." Wikipedia comments, "The Ganja Khanate (also spelled Ganjeh; Persian: خانات گنجه, romanized: Khānāt-e Ganjeh) was a khanate under Iranian suzerainty, which controlled the town of Ganja and its surroundings, now located in present-day Azerbaijan." This type is listed in the SCWC for AH 1189-1195 and has a modest catalog value.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 3.05 g, silver.

Catalog reference: KM-36.1 (listed under Azerbaijan), A-2944 (S).

Source:

• 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]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, February 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients, World Coins & World Paper Money, David B. Simpson Medals & World Coins Part 1, Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection, and Selections from the L. E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.

Links to:

• Ganja AH 1187 abbasi Muhammad Hasan Khan
• Iran AH 1195 quarter mohur, Kerman mint, Sadeq Khan
• Iran AH 1195 quarter mohur, Khuy mint, Sadeq Khan
• Coins and currency dated 1780