† Coins of India. Princely States. Awadh, Wajid ‘Ali, Copper Falus, 11.94g, AH 1267 Year 5, mintname Bait al-Saltanat, Lakhnau Mulka Awadh Akhtarnagar, struck on a machine-made planchet probably from Rupee dies. Very fine and unusual. This may have been a mint trial for the possible introduction of machine-made coinage or to test the impression of a pair of Rupee dies. Part of the David Fore Collection of British Indian Coins. £80-100
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