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Auction 22  14-15 May 2015
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Lot 773

Starting price: 170 USD
Price realized: 600 USD
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MUGHAL: Shah Alam Bahadur, 1707-1712, AR heavy weight rupee (11.99g), Azimabad, AH1122 year 4, KM-349.2, Zeno-103522 (this piece), struck to a standard that was approximately 1/24 heavier than the standard rupee, VF, RR. The heavy rupees of Shah Alam Bahadur were struck at a few mints, principally in AH1123 with regnal year 5, more rarely 1123 year 6, plus a very few examples of 1122 year 4, as on this piece. The analysis of these heavy rupees by Alan Deshazo was published in the ONS Journal #220 (summer 2014). He shows that at least 10 mints produced these, all very rare, and production was mandated by an Imperial Farman that was retracted very shortly afterwards.

Estimate: 200- 300 USD
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