CNG 100, Lot: 2174. Estimate $300.
Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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INDIA, Independent States. Sikh Empire. AR Rupee (25mm, 11.18 g, 1h). “Dar Jhang” type. Amritsar mint. Dated VS 1874 (AD 1817). Herrli Nanakshahi couplet V / Mint and date formula; pipal leaf and star; VS date above; three pellets-in-annulet below leaf;
dar jhank in Arabic to left. Wiggins & Goron Type I (Jhang); Herrli 01.09.04 and p. 58; B. Becker, “The so-called Dar Jhang rupee of the Sikhs,”
ONS Newsletter No. 143 (Winter 1995), p. 12; KM 20.1a. Good VF, toned, weakly struck at periphery, typical flan flaws at edge.
