India 1835(b) 1/2 rupee

from the Stack's Bowers 2022 Collector's Choice sale, lot 74309

This specimen was lot 74309 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2022), where it sold for $240. The catalog description^[1] noted, "INDIA. British East India Company. 1/2 Rupee, 1835.-(B). Bombay Mint. William IV. PCGS Genuine--Cleaned, AU Details. The gorgeous Half-Rupee has a burnished violet finish to the surfaces that have toned over most evidence of the noted cleaning. Outside of the occasional hairlines, this piece displays very little evidence of actual handling. From the Hobart Collection." This type comes in numerous varieties, suggesting that it was struck with a frozen date until the introduction of the Victoria half rupee (KM 455) in 1840. The East India Company was dissolved and its assets taken over by the British government after the Mutiny of 1857.

Recorded mintage: 3,573,000 plus prooflikes plus 6,700,000 from Calcutta.

Specification: 5.83 g, 0.917 fine silver, 29.7 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-449.1; S&W-1.60.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• Stevens, Paul, and Randy Weir, The Uniform Coinage of India, 1835 to 1947, A Catalogue and Pricelist, London, Spink & Son Ltd, 2012
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The February 2022 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients & World Coins, Featuring Selections from the Kings Norton Mint Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.

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