366, Lot: 173. Estimate $750. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PRINCELY STATES, Datia. Govind Singh. AH 1325-1368 / AD 1907-1948. AV Half Mohur (21mm, 5.69 g, 12h). Facing bust, wearing jeweled turban / Coat-of-arms with leonine and cervid supporters. KM (X) 1; Friedberg 1104. VF, marks on reverse, slight double strike on obverse, typical weak and crude strike, probably from jewelry. The rarest of the portrait mohurs.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Stephen Album, December 1979.