Lot 209
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Lu Kuan Rupee (11.47g), Cr.20, struck in or near Tachienlu (present day Kangting), on the rupee standard, c1902, in response to a shortage of Indian rupees, very fine and extremely rare
Lu Kuan Rupee (11.47g), Cr.20, struck in or near Tachienlu (present day Kangting), on the rupee standard, c1902, in response to a shortage of Indian rupees, very fine and extremely rare

Details
Lu Kuan Rupee (11.47g), Cr.20, struck in or near Tachienlu (present day Kangting), on the rupee standard, c1902, in response to a shortage of Indian rupees, very fine and extremely rare
Further details
For an account of the background to this rare piece, c.f. the article "A Sino-Tibetan Rupee", Spink's Numismatic Circular, March 1977. More recent Chinese works have confirmed that the coin was issued by Liu T'ing Shu, Magistrate of the Prefecture of Tachienlu, in 1902.