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Auction: 16005 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals including European Coins from the Peter Woodhead Collection
Lot: 2169

(x) India, East India Company, Madras Presidency, AV 5-Rupees (1/3-Mohur), 3.85g, undated (1820), lion holding crown left above shield, rev. Persian legend: panj rupiya kampani angrez bahadur (Pr.244; KM.422), surface a little water damaged, and part of edge smooth, very fine

provenance
Salvage from the Fame sailing from Bengal and Madras to London, shipwrecked just south of Cape Town on 14th June 1822

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Sold for
£520