256, Lot: 668. Estimate $100. Sold for $95. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Colonial. French India. AR Rupee (23mm, 11.32 g, 4h). Imitating a Princely States issue from Arcot (Arkat) mint. Pondichery mint. Dated AH (121)9 and RY 44 of Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II (AD 1804). KM 15 [(C) 46]. Good VF, lightly toned. An interesting engraver’s mistake with the ‘9’ of the AH date written retrograde.

From the TJH Collection.