The Uniform Coinage of India, British Imperial Period: Princely States, DHAR, Victoria [Anand Rao III (1857-98)], copper Twelfth-Anna, 1887, Calcutta, crowned and robed bust left, victoria empress, 4 panels in jabot, inverted v on bodice, rev. 1/12 anna dhar state india and date, all within scroll-like wreath of Indian flora, edge plain, 2.19g/12h (Prid. 1033 [Sale, lot 190]; Stevens website DR 25; KM. 11; cf. Fore III, 1360). Extremely fine, a hint of original colour £60-£80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Puddester Collection.

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Bt R. Weir (Unionville, ONT).

Owner’s ticket and envelope.

The Dhar state dynasty was founded in 1729. During the Pindhari raids the state's territory was reduced, but restored in January 1819 after an alliance agreement with the East India Company, after which it came under indirect British rule. The state was confiscated after the Mutiny, but in 1860 restored to Raja Anand Rao III Pawar (1844-98), then a minor, with the exception of the detached district of Bairusia which was granted to the Begum of Bhopal. Anand Rao, who received the personal title Maharajah and the KCSI in 1877, died in 1898