366, Lot: 255. Estimate $300. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

COLONIAL ISSUES, British India. Bengal Presidency. 1651-1835. AV Sixteenth Mohur (11mm, 0.77 g, 11h). Murshidabad (Calcutta) mint. Dually dated AH 1203 and RY 19 of Shah Alam II (AD 1789-1790). Persian couplet citing Shah Alam II; AH date above / Mint formula and RY date. Pridmore 59; Friedberg 1532. Near EF.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams.