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Auction 18006  25 Sep 2018
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Lot 1258

Starting price: 1000 GBP
Price realized: 2400 GBP
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(x) India, States, Cooch Behar, Aurangzeb (1661-63 in Cooch Behar), Half-Tanka, 4.96g, 'Alamgirnagar, ry. off flan, legends in four lines on both sides, Aora/ngajeva Va/dasaha Ala/mgira, cross under va, rev. Jarava/ Alamgi/ rnagara/ - (RB. 55; KM 85; Zeno 107918 (this coin)), about extremely fine, very rare.
Struck in name of Aurangzeb following the conquest of Assam by Mir Jumla in AD1661.
Ref: N.G.Rhodes, The Coinage of Cooch Behar, ONS Information Sheet 10; JASB NS XXXIII; N.G. Rhodes, The Mughal Mint of 'Alamgirnagar, Cooch Behar, JONS 200, Summer 2009
Estimate: £1200 - £1500
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