1876年印度飢荒的稀有穀物代幣將被拍賣

來自英屬印度的 1876 年單面青銅半先知浮雕令牌，無孔，是在 1870 年代影響印度南部的兩年飢荒期間使用的。

A rare grain token from a famine in India in 1876 is being offered in an upcoming auction by Stephen Album Rare Coins.

Stephen Album Rare Coins 即將在拍賣會上出售一枚來自 1876 年印度飢荒的稀有穀物代幣。

The uniface 1876 bronze half-seer Relief token from British India, without a hole, was struck for use during two years of famine affecting southern India in the 1870s.

來自英屬印度的 1876 年單面青銅半先知浮雕令牌，無孔，是在 1870 年代影響印度南部的兩年飢荒期間使用的。

The Great Famine of 1876 to 1878 struck India under British Crown rule. It began in 1876 following an intense drought that resulted in crop failure in the Deccan Plateau.

1876 年至 1878 年的大饑荒襲擊了英國王室統治下的印度。它始於 1876 年，當時德干高原發生嚴重乾旱，導致農作物歉收。

The famine affected south and southwestern India — the British-administered presidencies of Madras and Bombay, and the princely states of Mysore and Hyderabad — for a period of two years.

飢荒影響了印度南部和西南部——英國管理的馬德拉斯和孟買總統府，以及邁索爾和海得拉巴諸侯邦——持續了兩年。

Relief tokens with and without a hole for the half-seer denomination are known, and all are apparently very rare.

半先知教派的帶孔和不帶孔的浮雕標記是已知的，而且顯然都非常罕見。

A seer (also sihr) a traditional unit of mass and volume used in large parts of Asia prior to the middle of the 20th century, was officially defined by the Standards of Weights and Measures Act (No. 89 of 1956, amended in 1960 and 1964) as being exactly equal to 1.25 kilograms (2.8 pounds), but there were variances in accepted weights and depending on location.

西爾（也稱為 sihr）是 20 世紀中葉之前在亞洲大部分地區使用的傳統質量和體積單位，由《度量衡標準法》（1956 年第 89 號，1960 年修訂）正式定義。等於1.25 公斤（2.8 磅），但可接受的重量有差異，並且取決於地點。

The type is classified as KM-Tn3 in the Standard Catalog of World Coins by Chester Krause and Clifford Mishler, and as Pridmore-34 in The Coins of the British Commonwealth of Nations to the end of the reign of George VI, 1952. Part 4: India. Volume 2: East India Company 1835-58, Imperial period 1858-1947, by Fred Pridmore.

該類型在切斯特·克勞斯(Chester Krause) 和克利福德·米甚勒(Clifford Mishler) 編寫的《世界硬幣標準目錄》中被分類為KM-Tn3，在《英聯邦國家硬幣》（ 1952 年喬治六世統治末期）中被分類為Pridmore-34。第 2 卷：東印度公司 1835-58 年，帝國時期 1858-1947 年，作者：Fred Pridmore。

According to the auction house, “This is the only known specimen we are aware of,” and Coin World’s research suggests that perhaps as few as two examples of the token with the hole exist.

根據拍賣行的說法，“這是我們所知的唯一已知樣本”，而 Coin World 的研究表明，可能只有兩個帶有孔的代幣存在。

The sale of this token underscores a market reality: tokens almost universally sell for far less than comparable coin rarities, regardless of nation of origin.

這種代幣的銷售凸顯了一個市場現實：無論原產國為何，代幣的售價幾乎普遍遠低於同類硬幣的稀有度。

Graded Mint State 63 brown by Professional Coin Grading Service, the token has a pre-sale estimate of $2,500 to $3,500 U.S., surely a fraction of the likely price for a comparably rare coin of British India from the same period.

該代幣經專業硬幣評級服務機構評定為鑄幣廠州 63 棕色，預售估價為 2,500 至 3,500 美元，這肯定只是同期英屬印度相對稀有硬幣的可能價格的一小部分。