366, Lot: 184. Estimate $200. Sold for $360. 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 Half Ashrafi – Half Mohur (15mm, 5.57 g, 5h). In the name of Asaf Jah, Nizam al-Mulk. Haiderabad mint. Dated AH 1316 (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. KM (Y) 21; Friedberg 1156. Near EF, small test punch on obverse.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Dr. Lawrence Brilliant. Ex Skanda Collection (Spink-Taisei 9, 20 February 1991), lot 509.