Assam AV Mohur SE1675

My only Assamese gold coin/
AV Mohur SE 1675=1753 Rangphur Mint
Rajesvara Simha 1751-69
Assam Ahom Kingdom

 

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A unique piece.

 

Very cool Mohur!

 

Beautiful coin, @panzerman. I consider this series as one of the iconic coin issues; I've always been fascinated with them.

My collection has one gold from Assam but not as nice as yours. But I do have a couple hundred different dates/varieties of the silver issues. When I lived and worked in Calcutta in the 1970s, Assam and the British colonial issues were my prime collecting interests. As such, I was lucky to be there as it was prime territory for finding these coins.

 

I would one day like to buy one.

 

If it interests you and/or somebody else here, an Assamese mohur is available at this auction: https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/l...5-1783-gaurinatha-simha-suhitpanpha-ngc-au-55

 

Would be nice if NGC could at least mention ruler on their shabby data/ considering cost of grading these days.

 

Yes, another thing I dislike with them is that on some coins the wrong country is on the label, for example if you buy a NGC graded Crimean Khanate coin, instead of "Crimean Khanate", it will say "Mongolia"!

 

A little less than 12 hours to go until the live auction starts.

 

I have been outbid on it: https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/l...18-mohur-nd-1751-69-rajesvara-simha-ngc-au-58



You can still bid on it if you want, I unfortunately can't because the idiots at Stack's Bowers Galleries only gave me a 1000 USD bid limit.

 

Also, what kind of math are they using? How is 700 USD > 1000 USD?!?

 

I think they gave me 10KUS. Some European ones I have unlimited credit

Many even send coins before payment!

 

I figured out that they have a different system than most other auction houses, so even if you only have a 1000 USD limit and placed the whole 1000 USD on one coin, they only count the actual bid towards the limit, which allows you to bid on other coins as well, but once you are outbid on the first one, if you also have a bid on another one, your offer on the first one doesn't go up as it should, because the bid on the second coin counts against the limit, which is what happened here.

 

The idiots at Stack's Bowers Galleries are only ones that have ever caused problems with this, everyone else gives me a 5000, 8000, 10000 or 20000 EUR/USD/CHF credit limit without any issues.

 

It only hurts their business! It makes so much more sense to allow clients higher limits.

 

Yes, not to mention that I have like 20 references from major auction houses and coin dealers, but no, they didn't want to give a higher credit limit without me sending them my personal documents over the internet and signing some beyond insulting document, so of course I wrote that I wouldn't do it.

Once my bids with them are sorted one way or the other, I won't do any business with them anymore, they will join Leu Numismatik on my auction house and coin dealers blacklist.

 

Anyway, I hope that the Spink auction will have a nice Assamese Gold Octagonal Mohur on offer.

 

Spink are a good bet. They once had a colection from Tripura amazing coins!

 

It ended up selling for 1170 USD, and I ended up winning this coin instead: https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/l...57-69-hyderabad-mint-afzal-ad-daula-ngc-ms-65

 

I have also registered at the Heritage Auctions Europe website, maybe they will have something of interest at their auction next month as well.