408, Lot: 637. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Princely States. Hyderabad. temp. Mir Usman Ali Khan II. AH 1329-1368 / AD 1911-1948. AV Ashrafi (25mm, 11.17 g, 12h). Haiderabad mint. Dually dated AH 1367 (1947/8) RY 39 (AD 1949). Façade of Charminar Mosque; isolate ain in Persian in central entryway; Asaf Jah and 92 inscription above; partial AH date in exergue / Value within pelleted circular border; mint formula and ornament in place of RY date forming ornate border. KM (Y) 67 var. (AH 1368); Friedberg 1165; cf. David Fore Collection (Baldwin’s 84), lots 1458 and 1459. Near EF, small scratches at 11 o’clock on reverse.