366, Lot: 252. Estimate $500. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

COLONIAL ISSUES, British India. Bengal Presidency. 1651-1835. AV Mohur (20mm, 10.63 g, 12h). Uncertain local issue. Benaras mint. Triply dated AH [1]210 (?); RY 17/26 of Shah Alam II (AD 1784/5). Persian couplet citing Shah Alam II; floral symbol in right field / Mint formula and double RY date; flower in sin. Cf. Pridmore 217-8; cf. Friedberg 1534 (both refs for official issue). EF, evidence of prior mounting.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Stephen Album, September 1997. Ex Irving Goodman Collection (Superior, 28 May 1995), lot 342.