Live auction - fme_897878 - BRITISH INDIA - EAST INDIA COMPANY - BENGAL - SHAH ALAM II Médaille, Monghyr Mutiny
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| Estimate : | 120 € |
| Price : | 60 € |
| Maximum bid : | 325 € |
| End of the sale : | 09 April 2024 18:43:42 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Médaille, Monghyr Mutiny
Date: 1766
Metal : silver
Diameter : 34 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,86 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Médaille nettoyée à la patine hétérogène. Beaux reliefs malgré la présence de quelques marques d’usure sur les hauts reliefs. Bélière coupée à 12 heures, traces de lime sur la tranche à ce niveau
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Représentation de Minerve casquée, assise et tenant un bouclier et une lance. A ses pieds, une chouette. En arrière-plan, trois palmiers. Signé : K.
Reverse
Reverse legend : NON / NISI DIGNO / MDCCLXVI.
Reverse description : Légende en 3 lignes entourée d’une couronne de laurier.
Commentary
D’autres sources indiquent que cette médaille était attribuée par une loge maçonnique de Leipzig.
Historical background
BRITISH INDIA - EAST INDIA COMPANY - BENGAL - SHAH ALAM II
(AH 1174-1202 and 1203-1221 or (1759-1788 and 1789-1806)
Having been treated by the English surgeon Hamilton, the Emperor Farrukhsiyar concedes, in 1717, to his compatriots important commercial advantages. In 1764, Mughal Shah Alam II granted diwani (commercial income) from Bengal, Bihar and Orissa to the English East India Company against payment of 3,200,000 rupees per year. In 1769, the English restrict the rights of the Bengali to market certain products, the same year and the following, a terrible famine kills 10 million people, that is to say a third of the population. From this period, the history of Bengal merges with that of the British administration and its governors-general (1773-1833).
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