Kalat AH 1286 paisa

Stephen Album sale 50, lot 2535

This specimen was lot 2535 in Stephen Album sale 50 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2024), where it did not sell. The catalog description^[1] noted, "KALAT: AR paisa, Kalat, AH1786 (sic), date error for AH1286, in the name of the long deceased Durrani Mahmud, VF, R." The edition of the SCWC in our hands does not list a KM 10 for this state in central Balochistan, which struck coinage only in the mid-nineteenth century. The Khan of Kalat was the last native ruler to accede to the state of Pakistan in 1948. As his subjects were 99.8% Muslim, he had little choice.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper, this specimen 4.43 g.

Catalog reference: KM-10.

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 50, featuring selections from the Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld Collection, the Hakim Hamidi Collection, the Almer H. Orr III Collection and the Solar Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.

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• Coins and currency dated 1869