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Extremely Rare Copper Pattern Piedfort Rupee Coin of Sayaji Rao III of Baroda State.

Currency:INR Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:70,000.00 INR Estimated At:70,000.00 - 90,000.00 INR
Extremely Rare Copper Pattern Piedfort Rupee Coin of Sayaji Rao III of Baroda State.
Baroda, Sayaji Rao III, Copper Rupee (Pattern), VS 1943/1886 AD, off-Metal struck,Obv:bust of king to right, nagari legend around " sri sayaji rao-gayakwad", Rev: nagari denomination in two lines, ek-rupaya, sword and vs date,leafy border, plain edge,17.4g, 29.20mm, (KM # Pn A4), about very fine+,ExtremelyRare.Similar coin in Proof condition was sold in David Fore Collection in 2013 for 2300 GBP.Portrait coins were introduced for the first time in the gold series in VS 1942 and in the silver series in VS 1948.