Hyderabad AH1302 1/8 ashrafi
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This specimen was lot 885 in Stephen Album sale 43 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2022), where it sold for $480. The catalog description[1] noted, "HYDERABAD: Mir Mahbub Ali Khan, 1868-1911, AV 1/8 ashrafi, Farkhanda Bunyad, AH1302, a fantastic mint state example! PCGS graded MS66." The Indian princely state of Hyderabad was one of the few large enough and wealthy enough to mint an extensive series of gold coins. This type was struck AH 1293, 1302, 1306, 1309, 1313, 1316-1321 along with a one-sixteenth ashrafi (KM Y18).
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 1.39 g, 0.910 fine gold, this specimen 1.38 g.
Catalog reference: KM Y-19.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 43, featuring the Dick Nanta Collection of Giray Khans, Part II, the Charles Opitz Collection of Ethnographic Money, Part II, and the Allan F. Pacela Collection of Chinese Coins. Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2022.
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