India - British India
Lot 3886 SESSION 12 (11.30am Thursday 23 July) India - British India
Estimate $500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $2,000
GEORGE VI, proof set 1945 Bombay mint, base metal issues of pice, one anna, two annas, quarter anna, half rupee and rupee, (Pridmore notes as specimen coins available from Bombay mint only pice, anna, two annas, others are not reported by Pridmore, Krause notes rupees as well, KM.533, 539, 543, 557). Sharp FDC and brilliant, higher values all very rare. (6)
Ex R.Climpson Collection, Noble Numismatics Sale 85 (lot 2200) and previously from the S.V. Hagley Collection and Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, Noble Numismatics Sale 48 (lot 2194). From the mint records of the restruck issues the quarter and half rupee appear unpublished, the rupee is unpriced in Krause.
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