Triton XIV, Lot: 1193. Estimate $500. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Persia (Post-Mongol). Durranis. Ahmad Shah. AH 1160-1186 / AD 1747-1772. AV Mohur (22mm, 10.84 g, 2h). Dar al-Khalifat Shahjahanabad (Delhi) mint. Dated AH [117]4; RY 14 (AD 1760/1). Persian couplet citing Ahmad Shah in six lines; AH date to left, partially off flan / Mint and RY formula in six lines. Album 3090; Friedberg 1; KM 766. EF.

Ahmad Shah seized Delhi twice: once briefly in 1756 and again for thirteen months in 1760-1761. He defeated the rising Marathas at the battle of Panipat in January 1761, but ultimately was unable to hold northern India.