The Puddester Collection (Part I)

East India Company, Bengal Presidency, Calcutta Mint: post-1761 issues, Third gold coinage, gold Sixteenth-Mohur in the name of ‘Shah ‘Alam II (1173-1221h/1759-1806), 1200h, frozen regnal yr 19 [1785-6], naming Murshidabad, sikka zad bar haft kishwar saya fazl ilah hami din muhammad shah alam badshah [defender of the religion of Muhammad, Shah ‘Alam emperor, shadow of the divine favour, put his stamp on the seven climes], rev. zarb murshidabad sanah 19 julus maimanat manus [struck at Murshidabad in the 19th year of his reign of tranquil prosperity], 0.77g/7h (Prid. – [not in Sale]; Stevens –; Stevens website –; KM. 87 [date not listed]; F 1532). Slightly bent otherwise good very fine, of the highest rarity, the date unpublished £1,000-£1,500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Puddester Collection.

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Bt in London September 1985.

Owner’s envelope.

Mohurs, half- and eighth-mohurs are known for 1200h – this is the first recorded sixteenth-mohur for that date. Quarter-mohurs for 1200h have yet to be recorded