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A WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF THE COINS OF MYSORE
Mysore, the Independent Kingdom
3314 Tipu Sultan (1782-1799 AD), Gold Mohur, Patan, AH 1200, Year 4, 10.92g (cf KM B129; H -; cf Zeno 71406). Very fine, two shroff marks to the reverse, extremely rare. £4000-6000 bought Spink, 1976 By weight the coin is a Mohur. Haidar Ali used the Mohur weight standard and at the start of his reign Tipu Sultan must have done the same. This lighter weight standard is noted by Henderson (p.15) and illustrated on Zeno (71406). The coin is year 4. Ordinarily we would have expected Tipu to have moved on completely to the Pagoda weight system by this stage which makes the present coin a particularly late Mohur. Mohurs of Tipu Sultan are extremely rare.
3315 Tipu Sultan, Gold 4-Pagodas or Ahmadi, Patan, AM 1216 (retrograde), Year 6, obv mint in lower line, 13.73g (KM B129, date not listed; H -). Extremely fine and rare. £6000-8000 bought Spink, 1975
3316 Tipu Sultan, Gold 4-Pagodas or Ahmadi, Patan, AM 1219 (retrograde), Year 9, obv mint in lower line, 13.68g (KM B129; H 6). Overstruck on the same type, about extremely fine and rare. £5000-7000 bought Seabys, 1981