Triton XIX, Lot: 2437. Estimate $2000. Sold for $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Princely States. Kashmir. Dogra Raja Ranbir Singh. VS 1914-1942 / AD 1857-1885. AV Fifth Mohur (14mm, 2.34 g, 4h). Srinagar mint. Dated VS 19[32(?)] (AD 1875). Takari legend with partial date below / zarb srina[gar sri ragha]nahat ji [saha’i] ([struck srina[gar sri ragha]nahat ji[saha’i]) in Persian; pipal leaf above JHS. ONS Newsletter 125 (July-August 1990), p. 10 (citing first reporting and assignment of KM number); N.G. Rhodes, “The Gold ¼ Mohur of the Ranbir Singh of Kashmir: some further comments,” ONS Newsletter 128 (March-May 1991), p. 10; Rhodes, Some, fig. 3; KM (Y) 22; Friedberg 1258. EF. Nearly full JHS. Struck from rupee dies. One of approximately ten to twelve examples known.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from M. Louis Teller, October 1989.