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Auction: 25088 - The Nicholas Rhodes Collection of Nepalese Coins Part I
Lot: 240

Nepal, Prithvi Vir Vikram Shah (1881-1911), Machine-Struck copper 2-Paisa, for presentation sets, VS 1964 (1907), Obv. legend in three lines within square, 5 Prithvi Vī /ra Vikrama/ Sāha Deva, syllable Śrī above square between moon and sun, four-digit figure for date 1964 below square, ornament with flower to left and right of square, Rev., Pasupa/tīnātha/Nepāl syllable Śrī between moon and sun above square, ornament with flower to left and right and below square, edge plain, 10.21g, 12h, 26.5mm (RGV 1318; KM 634), lustrous beneath red-brown surfaces, about uncirculated and rare; copper Paisa, VS 1964 (1907) (2), much as before, edges plain, 4.64g, 12h, 23mm; 5.10g, 12h, 23mm (RGV 1320; KM 631), struck from different dies, with red-brown surfaces, uncirculated and rare; copper ½-Paisa, VS (19)64 (1907), Obv. legend in three lines within square, 5 Pri/thvi Vī/ra Vi, syllable Śrī above square between moon and sun, 2-digit figure for date 64 below square, ornament with flower to left and right of square, Rev. legend in three lines within central square, krama/ Sāha/ Deva, ornaments with flower on the four sides of the square, 2.52g, 12h, 19mm (RGV 1322; KM 622), near red surfaces, uncirculated and rare; copper Dam, VS (19)64 (1907), Obv. Śrī/ Nepā/l, Rev. Sa/rkār/64, edge plain, 1.23g, 12h (RGV 1324; KM 620.2), pleasing red to one side, about uncirculated and rare; 2-Paisa; 1-Paisa; ½-Paisa, Dam (2) VS 1968 (1911), much as before, (RGV 1319, 1321, 1323, 1325; KM 620.2, 621, 622, 631, 634), pleasing red-brown surfaces and lustrous, uncirculated and rare (10)

Provenance

The Nicholas Rhodes Collection of Nepalese Coins and Medals: Part One

with collector's tickets

i) Seaby, January 1970 [not listed in SCMB]

ii) Spink, November 1973 [not listed in SNC]

iii) Seaby, January 1970 [not listed in SCMB]

iv) A H Baldwin, by private treaty, 1963

v) A H Baldwin, by private treaty, July 1968

vi) Spink, April 1966 [not listed in SNC]

vii) Spink, November 1973 [not listed in SNC]
Ex. Virgil Brand Collection

viii) Spink, November 1973 [not listed in SNC]
Ex. Virgil Brand Collection





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Estimate
£300 to £400

Starting price
£210