2401

DANISH INDIA: TRANQUEBAR: AR rupee (11.38g), Arkat (Arcot), AH(11)83 year 14, VF

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Indian Coins - Colonial Start Price:110.00 USD Estimated At:130.00 - 170.00 USD
DANISH INDIA: TRANQUEBAR: AR rupee (11.38g), Arkat (Arcot), AH(11)83 year 14, VF
SOLD
260.00USD+ (52.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2023 Sep 16 @ 16:17UTC-7 : PDT/MST
PLEASE NOTE: You must request a bid limit when you register. If you would like to have a large bid limit, you must provide adequate references, or you must have previously established strong credit history with our company. Late registration may result in delayed approval.
DANISH INDIA: TRANQUEBAR: AR rupee (11.38g), Arkat (Arcot), AH(11)83 year 14, KM-, Zeno-224676 & 112197 (for further information), in the name of Shah Alam II: the characteristic marks on the obverse is the short obverse legend shah 'alam padshah-i ghazi mubarak and on the reverse a trisul within the S of "jalus and a whirling flower left of the regnal year; many banker's marks on both sides, VF, RR, ex Charles W. Lueders III Collection. Examples in the name of Shah Alam II, mint name "Arkat", dated AH1183 and regnal years 13 or 14, are known (cited by Uno Barner Jensen in "Danish East India Trade Coins and the coins of Tranquebar 1620-1845", pp. 30-31). According to a report from Jan Lingen, the Danes struck rupees from about 1755 (in the name of Alamgir II) until 1776, called either Pondicherry rupees or Danish Arkat rupees in their records.