366, Lot: 183. Estimate $500. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PRINCELY STATES, Hyderabad. temp. Mir Mahbub Ali Khan II. AH 1285-1329 / AD 1868-1911. AV Ashrafi – Mohur (21mm, 11.17 g, 9h). In the name of Asaf Jah, Nizam al-Mulk. Haiderabad mint. Dually dated AH 1300; RY 16 (AD 1882). Persian couplet; traces of 92 in Easter Arabic numerals in upper right field; AH date in exergue; mim in Persian above mulk / Mint formula and RY date. KM (Y) 22; Friedberg 1155. EF, areas of light red toning, small test punch on obverse.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Baldwin’s, October 1983 (through M. Louis Teller).