Cooch Behar SE1477 rupee

Stack's Bowers June 2022 Collector's Choice sale, lot 71526

Cooch Behar about 1792, from Shepherd's atlas

This specimen was lot 71526 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, June 2022), where it sold for $660. The catalog description^[1] noted, "INDIA. Cooch Behar. Rupee, SE 1477 (1555). Nara Narayan. NGC MS-63. This highly attractive Choice Rupee displays some handsome luster and a full strike." Cooch Behar is today in the strip of India which divides Bhutan from Bangladesh. KM 34 is not listed in the 17th century edition of the SCWC in our possession.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: KM 34.

Source:

• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The June 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.

Link to:

• Cooch Behar SE1547/118 rupee
• Coins and currency dated 1555