Lot 728

VOC, Java -Iranian Afsharid AR rupi (11.24 gram) i.n.o. Nadir Shah (AH1148-1160/AD1736-1747), mint: Dar al-Sultanat Isfahan, dated AH1158 (KM.385.5), countermarked ‘Java’ in Arabic (ca. 1753-1760) (C/m vdWis B12). Retrieved from the river. C/m and host coin gF-VF, RRRR - of great rarity. Rf.: KM.—. Scho. 454; Fonrobert 366; Bucknill 48-56. Note: A Resolution or Placard by which this type of countermarked coin was put into circulation is not known, but in a Resolution of Oct. 2, 1758, it is declared that the stamp for the Persian Rupees was no longer in use. We know of a decision of 1760 to withdraw all countermarked Batavian, Surat and Persian Rupees for 30 Stivers a piece and reissue them at a rate of 27 Stivers. From the specimens known, it will be seen that they are of the utmost rarity