Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 2055. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Princely States. Rohilkand. Najib Khan. 1753-1770. AV Mohur (10.78 gm, 2h). In the name of Shah Alam II. Najibabad mint. Dated AH [11]75; RY 2 (1761 AD). Legend with titles of Shah Alam and AH date / Legend with titles, regnal year of Shah Alam, leaf mintmark and mint. KM 100. VF, bankers' marks on edge. ($500)

Rohilkhand was the Indian territory of the Rohillas, a tribe of Afghan freebooters who seized it from the decrepit Mughal rulers in the 1740s. In 1754 the territory had been partitioned among numerous petty Rohilla princelings, who either acquired or assumed the title of nawab, or governor acting under authority of the Mughal emperor. By 1801 all the quarreling princes had lost their autonomy to the British and to the expanding state of Awadh.