390, Lot: 652. Estimate $150. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Colonial. British India. Victoria. Queen of the United Kingdom, 1837-1901. Pair of Æ counterfeiter’s dies for an AR Rupee. East India Company Type II issue. Calcutta or Bombay mint. Dated 1840. Average dimensions: overall length, 15mm; diameter, 38 mm. Of cylindrical form. Weight: obverse is 152.50 grams; reverse is 155.20 grams. Bronze cast impressions of obverse and reverse of a Calcutta or Bombay mint East India Company Type II rupee, dated 1840. Reverses and edges of dies have been lathed. Cf. UCI 3.33; Pridmore 56; KM 458.2 (all refs for official type). Fine/VF.