366, Lot: 163. Estimate $500. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PRINCELY STATES, Baroda. temp. Gaikwar Khande Rao. AH 1273-1287 / AD 1856-1870. AV Quarter Mohur (15mm, 2.74 g, 5h). In the name of the Commander of the Sovereign Band. Amreli mint. Dated AH 127[...] (Struck after AD 1858). Incomplete Persian legend citing sena khas khel (commander of the sovereign band) / kha ga in Devanagari; AH date below; scimitar to left. KM (Y) B13; Friedberg 1035a. VF, evidence of mounting. Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from M. Louis Tellert, November 1988.