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E.I.C. Bengal Presidency
East India Company, Bengal Presidency, An impression of the dies for a jeweller's copy in silver of a Murshidabad Rupee, yr 19, struck on an indeterminate oversized blank, edge crudely grained right, 39mm, 23.59g/12h (Mitchiner 215ff). Light ornamental engraving on outer border, fine, unusual
£50-£100
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Provenance: Taisei/Baldwin/Gillio Auction 25 (Hong Kong), 4 September 1997, lot 673, label.
Two owner's envelopes.
The 1997 cataloguer thought the undertype was a 5-qurush of Mahmud II, but this is pure speculation as there is no trace of an underlying design
East India Company, Bengal Presidency, An impression of the dies for a jeweller's copy in silver of a Murshidabad Rupee, yr 19, struck on an indeterminate oversized blank, edge crudely grained right, 39mm, 23.59g/12h (Mitchiner 215ff). Light ornamental engraving on outer border, fine, unusual
£50-£100
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Provenance: Taisei/Baldwin/Gillio Auction 25 (Hong Kong), 4 September 1997, lot 673, label.
Two owner's envelopes.
The 1997 cataloguer thought the undertype was a 5-qurush of Mahmud II, but this is pure speculation as there is no trace of an underlying design