½ rupee from Bengal in India of the English East India Company (EIC) in the name of Shah Alam II, 1185 [=1771]
Also known as: ½ roepie uit Bengalen in India van de Engelse Oostindische Compagnie (EIC) op naam van Sjah Alam I,1185 [=1771]
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1771
Silver coin. Obverse: inscription in three lines in Arabic characters, with date indication at the bottom: 1185. Reverse: inscription in three lines in Arabic characters. Above the second line, indication of regnal year: 12, with to the far right thereof (part of a) star [=mint Murshidabad]. Plain edge. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-3948; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements diameter 2 cm x weight 5.81 g. Description translated from the museum's Dutch catalogue text; details are those of this museum object, and how far it represents a wider type has not been independently verified.
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver (metal)
- Technique
- striking (metalworking)
- Measurements
- diameter 2 cm x weight 5.81 g
Design
- Obverse
- inscription in three lines in Arabic characters, with date indication at the bottom: 1185.
- Reverse
- inscription in three lines in Arabic characters. Above the second line, indication of regnal year: 12, with to the far right thereof (part of a) star [=mint Murshidabad]. Plain edge.
Identification
- Original title
- ½ roepie uit Bengalen in India van de Engelse Oostindische Compagnie (EIC) op naam van Sjah Alam I,1185 [=1771]
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- KOG-MP-1-3948
- Museum classification
- coin
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