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East India Company, Bengal Presidency, Calcutta Mint: Coinage for Benares, copper Half-Pice...
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East India Company, Bengal Presidency, Calcutta Mint: Coinage for Benares, copper Half-Pice in the name of ‘Shah ‘Alam II (1173-1221h/1759-1806), frozen yr 37 [1807-9], sanah julus 37 shah alam badshah [in the 37th year of the emperor Shah ‘Alam], rev. ad pai sikka/adha pai sikka [half pai sikka], 3.51g/12h (Prid. 307 [Sale, lot 652]; Stevens 7.183; KM. A54). Light die rust and traces of overstriking, otherwise good very fine and patinated, very rare [certified and graded NGC AU 58 BN] £120-£150 --- Provenance: E. Wodak (Melbourne) Collection, ticket Noble Numismatics Auction 52 (Sydney), 13-15 November 1996, lot 4135, two tickets. Owner’s envelope. An unusual coin; the die rust and heavy weight strongly suggest that it could be an impaired proof, yet it shares the same obverse die as the first currency specimen illustrated on Stevens website image 1759; it does not share the same dies as other proof half-pice of this series noted by the cataloguer
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East India Company, Bengal Presidency, Calcutta Mint: Coinage for Benares, copper Half-Pice in the name of ‘Shah ‘Alam II (1173-1221h/1759-1806), frozen yr 37 [1807-9], sanah julus 37 shah alam badshah [in the 37th year of the emperor Shah ‘Alam], rev. ad pai sikka/adha pai sikka [half pai sikka], 3.51g/12h (Prid. 307 [Sale, lot 652]; Stevens 7.183; KM. A54). Light die rust and traces of overstriking, otherwise good very fine and patinated, very rare [certified and graded NGC AU 58 BN] £120-£150 --- Provenance: E. Wodak (Melbourne) Collection, ticket Noble Numismatics Auction 52 (Sydney), 13-15 November 1996, lot 4135, two tickets. Owner’s envelope. An unusual coin; the die rust and heavy weight strongly suggest that it could be an impaired proof, yet it shares the same obverse die as the first currency specimen illustrated on Stevens website image 1759; it does not share the same dies as other proof half-pice of this series noted by the cataloguer
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