366, Lot: 187. Estimate $100. Sold for $525. 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 Sixteenth Ashrafi – Sixteenth Mohur (7mm, 0.69 g, 11h). In the name of Asaf Jah, Nizam al-Mulk. Haiderabad mint. Dated AH 1321 (AD 1887). Persian couplet; [92 in Easter Arabic numerals in upper right field]; AH date in exergue; mim in Persian above mulk / Mint formula. KM (Y) 18; Friedberg 1159. EF, lustrous. Rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams.