Virasat
Auction, sale 29, lot 288. The auctioneer wrote:
The regnal year RY 3 is
inscribed numerically on the coin and is also repeated in words at the very
bottom as “Thalath / Salas” (RY 3) at
the bottom on the reverse at 6'o clock, a feature recognized by few observers
but has never been published in detail. It probably owes its origins to the
re-ordering of regnal years by Aurangzeb in the second year of his reign