Lot 765

Iranian Afsharid AR Rupi or 10 Shahi AH1162, Muqaddas Mashhad (KM.434.3) i.n.o. Shah Rukh (1st reign, 1748-49) with countermark ‘Java’ in Arabic (vdWis B12, ca. 1753-60) - 11.56 g. - c/m and host coin gVF, RRRR (KM.—. Scho. 455; Fonrobert 366; Bucknill 55) A resolution or placard by which this type of countermarked coin was put into circulation is not known, but in a Resolution 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.