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MCE-13337. Wt =
10.68g. Diam = ~25.1mm |
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Photo
from Marudhar Arts |
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Wt = 10.68g. |
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from Steve Album who wrote: KM-1.2var, struck on broad thin flan for
presentation purposes, as Herrli-15.03.04, but in the name of Ahmad Shah Durrani,
with the name just nabha rather than nabha kanal as on other coins
of Nabha struck from VS1893 onwards (1836), the
year that the Nabha obverse regular coins switched
from citing Ahmad Shah Durrani to Guru Gobindshah. Nabha changed the obverse from Ahmad
Shah to Gobinshah in
VS1893 (1836), which was retained on all coinage until their last issues in
VS1931 (1874), with the exception of this one issue restoring the name of Ahmad Shah, as was still
retained by most of the other Cis-Sutlej states, such as Patiala and Maler Kotla. The Sikh Empire was dissolved in VS1906 (1849) by
the British forces, and it is conceivable that Bharpur
Singh's administration felt more secure abandoning the Sikh inscription, but
for reasons we have not been able to determine, restored the Sikh text later
in the same year. |
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Wt = 10.70g. Same
specimen as first one above? |
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from Oswal Auctions |
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