India 1986-B 100 rupees

from Stephen Album sale 41, lot 2429

This specimen was lot 2429 in Stephen Album sale 41 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2021), where it sold for $156. The catalog description^[1] noted, "INDIA: AR 100 rupees, 1986-B, Fisheries, NGC graded PF64 CAM." This NCLT honored Indian fisheries. The proofs bear the Bombay mintmark and are scarce; the "circulation" issue was not mintmarked. The 100 rupees of 1987 honored Indian farmers.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 35 g, 0.500 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM-283.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 41, 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., 2021.

Link to:

• 1981-B 100 rupees, Year of the Child
• 1985 10 rupees, Golden Jubilee of the Reserve Bank of India
• 1986(c) rupee
• 1987(c) 5 paise
• 1989-B 100 rupees, centennial of the birth of Jawaharlal Nehru
• Coins and currency dated 1986