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# 424Rupee AH nd RY 36 Ranjit SinghIndia D Princely States - Bharatpur
India – Bharatpur – Ranjit Singh (AH 1190 - 1220 / AD 1776 - 1805). Issue in the name of the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II. Rupee AH – (1208-9) RY 36 (AD 1793-5). Mint: Kosi, Silver (ø 21 mm – w. 10.82 g.). Edge: plain. KM –. M/W T1a, p. 145 (Gokul mint). (Brown 4606 – Braij-indrapur, AH 121x RY 44).

Obverse:
Persian legend. Couplet with the Ruler's name and titles (from bottom to top: [Bar] haft kishwar sikka / [(sayah) fa]zl hami din zad Badshah / [llah] Muhammad Sha[h] ‘A[lam] = Struck coin through the seven climes, (the shadow) of the divine favour, Shah Alam, the Emperor, the defender of the Faith of Mohammed). Digit – 7 – above the bottom line at right.

Reverse:
Persian legend. Mint name and Julus formula (from bottom to top: Sanat 36 julus maimanat manus / [Za]rb Ko[s]i, [Sri] = Struck at Kosi, (in the) year 36 (of his) reign associated with prosperity). Mint mark (flower-star) above the bottom line at left. Devanagari character SRI following the mint name (off the flan).

Note:
See Mr Shailendra Bhandare's article for this coin – Kaman and Kosi, Two post-Mughal mints in the Braj region – Journal ONS 193 (Autumn 2007), pp. 21-24.
Retrograde – B – of Badshah on obverse.

Provenance:
Stephen Album Rare Coins, California, Auction 9, 11 December 2010, Lot 630.
Ex Eck Prud'homme Collection.

Web References:
http://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=93480
http://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=58858

Literature:
Brown C. J. – Catalogue of Coins in the Provincial Museum Lucknow / The Mughal Emperors – Vol. I-II, Oxford, 1920 (reprinted 1985).
Krause C. and Mishler C. – Standard Catalog of World Coins 1801-1900 – Krause Publications, Usa, 4th Edition, 2004.
Maheshwari K. K. and Wiggins K. W. – Maratha Mints and Coinage – Indian Inst. of Research in Numismatic Studies, Bombay, 1989.