Lot 648
IPS Jind State Raja Bhag Singh INO Ahmed Shah Durrani Sahrind Mint Silver Rupee
Auction # 10 Lucknow (Online)
- Estimated Price (INR)
- 1500 - 1800
- Price Realised -
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Auction Completed!
- Catalog Reference #
- KM # 1
- Metal Composition
- Silver
- Lot Grade/Condition
- extra fine+
- Diameter
- 19.98 mm
- Weight
- 11.00 gms
- Denomination
- Rupee
- Calendar/Year
- 1764-1786 AD
Indian Princely States, Jind State, Raja Bhag Singh (AH 1224), INO Ahmed Shah Durrani (AH 1160-1186, 1747-1772 AD), Silver Rupee, 11.00 gms, 19.98 mm, Sahrind Mint (Off flan), ND, known date on the type, AH 1224. Early strike, with borrowed die's from Patiala. Capt. R C Temple, in his article on the Coins of the Native Princely States of Punjab, Indian Antiquary, Nov. 1889, describes this story for the coins of Raja Gajpat Singh, who has a seperate series with a well defined symbol. He also mentions that a plume(kalgi) was added to the die, with has been found to have been re-engraved on the worn out die of these coins, KM # 1, extra fine+, rare.