Ladakh VS1924 paisa

from Steve Album sale 27, lot 2260

Kashmir in 1942. Ladakh is the upper Indus valley around Leh

This specimen was lot 2260 in Stephen Album sale 27 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2017), where it sold for $305.50. The catalog description^[1] noted, "LADAKH: AE paisa, Ladakh, VS1924. Struck under Doghra rule, very rare in this quality, EF, ex Paul Stevens Collection." The SCWC lists this type for VS 1923-1931 and does not offer pricing above Very Fine. The Dogras were interlopers from the Sikh empire to the south. The princely state of Jammu and Kashmir was created after the First Anglo-Sikh War, when the East India Company, which had annexed the Kashmir Valley from the Sikhs, then sold it in 1846 to the Raja of Jammu, Gulab Singh.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper, this specimen 6.08 g.

Catalog reference: KM 9.

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 27, featuring the Dr. Paul Stevens Collection of Indian Coins, Part VI, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2016.

Link to:

• Kashmir VS1920 anna
• Ladakh VS1927 paisa
• Kashmir VS1927 rupee
• Ladakh VS1928 ja'u
• Coins and currency dated 1867
• return to coins of India