Stephen Album Rare Coins
Auction 14 21-22 September 2012
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BENGAL PRESIDENCY: AV mohur (12.22g), "Murshidabad", AH1202 year 19 (frozen), KM-113, Prid-83 type, oblique milling sloping towards the left, type struck 1825-1830, Very Fine to Extremely Fine.
This piece is a contemporary unofficial issue, die-identical to the illustrated example of Prid-401, and would have been produced either unofficially at one of the Presidency mints or at a privately operated mint, for the following reasons. On the obverse, the H of muhammad is shaped differently from the regular specimens, the H at the end of shah and padishah are plain round circles, and the first A and D of padishah touch one another. On the reverse, the 5-petal flower touches one of the pellets in the 5-pellet rosette to the lower left. The "scratch" on the reverse is not a coin scratch but a die-break, which could occur on both official and unofficial issues.
Estimate: 750-850 USD
This piece is a contemporary unofficial issue, die-identical to the illustrated example of Prid-401, and would have been produced either unofficially at one of the Presidency mints or at a privately operated mint, for the following reasons. On the obverse, the H of muhammad is shaped differently from the regular specimens, the H at the end of shah and padishah are plain round circles, and the first A and D of padishah touch one another. On the reverse, the 5-petal flower touches one of the pellets in the 5-pellet rosette to the lower left. The "scratch" on the reverse is not a coin scratch but a die-break, which could occur on both official and unofficial issues.
Estimate: 750-850 USD