Triton XIX, Lot: 2424. Estimate $4000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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INDIA, Princely States. Cooch Behar. Raja Rajendra Narayan. SE 1833-1835 / AD 1911-1913. Restrike AV Nazarana Mohur (21mm, 8.55 g, 12h). Manufactured by Grish of Calcutta. Dated CB era 402 (AD 1912). Coat-of-arms with lion and elephant supporters; GRISH in exergue /
śrī śrī/
raja rajendra narayana/
bhup/
raja saka 402 in Bengali; floral ornaments flanking
śrī śrī. R&B,
Cooch, 76; KM (X)M8; Friedberg 1099. UNC, mirror fields, light hairlines. Very rare.
From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from M. Louis Teller, October 1984.