The Puddester Collection (Part I)

East India Company, Bengal Presidency, Calcutta Mint: Early Years, silver Half-Rupee in the name of ‘Alamgir II (1167-73h/1754-9), yr 4 [1757-8], Kalkata, sikka mubarak badshah ghazi ‘alamgir [the auspicious coin of the victorious Emperor ‘Alamgir], rev. zarb kalkata sanah 4 julus maimanat manus [struck at Calcutta in the 4th year of his reign of tranquil prosperity], flower to left of regnal year, 5.84g/6h (Prid. 9 [from Johnston, NC 1903, no.2, not in Sale]; Stevens 1.13; Stevens website, image 1351, this coin; KM. 7). About extremely fine, well-struck and with clear symbols, toned, of the highest rarity, perhaps only one other specimen known [certified and graded NGC AU 58]
£3,000-£4,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Puddester Collection.

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P.J.E. Stevens Collection, Part III, Stephen Album Auction 25 (Santa Rosa, CA), 19-21 May 2016, lot 1223, label.

Owner’s ticket and envelope.

This coin was only previously known from the list published by the actuary John Michael Cramsie Johnston (†February 1905), from Camberwell, London, in NC 1903; one presumes it formed part of his collection (Sotheby Auction (London), 16-18 July 1906) but its presence there, possibly within lot 550, is not divinable from the sale catalogue