Los 760

VOC, Java -Iranian Afsharid AR rupi (11.54 gram) i.n.o. Nadir Shah (AH1148-1160/AD1736-1747), mint: Dar al-Sultanat Isfahan, dated AH1159 (KM.385.5), countermarked ‘Java’ in Arabic (ca. 1753-1760) (C/m vdWis B12). Countermark unreported on a rupee of Nadir Shah of Isfahan mint. C/m and host coin aEF, RRRR - of the utmost rarity. Rf.: KM.—. Scho. 454; Fonrobert 366; Bucknill 48-56. Note: A Res. or Placard by which this type of countermarked coin was put into circulation is not known, but in a Res. of Oct. 2, 1758, it is declared that the stamp for the Persian Rupees was no longer in use. We know of a decision of 1760 to withdraw all countermarked Batavian, Surat and Persian Rupees for 30 Stivers a piece and reissue them at a rate of 27 Stivers. From the specimens known, it will be seen that they are of the utmost rarity