1876年印度饥荒的稀有谷物代币将被拍卖

来自英属印度的 1876 年单面青铜半先知浮雕令牌，无孔，是在 1870 年代影响印度南部的两年饥荒期间使用的。

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 即将在即将举行的拍卖会上出售一枚 1876 年印度饥荒的稀有谷物代币。

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.

来自英属印度的 1876 年单面青铜半先知浮雕令牌，无孔，是在 1870 年代影响印度南部的两年饥荒期间使用的。

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 年的大饥荒袭击了英国王室统治下的印度。它始于 1876 年，当时德干高原发生严重干旱，导致农作物歉收。

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.

饥荒影响了印度南部和西南部——英国管理的马德拉斯和孟买总统府，以及迈索尔和海得拉巴诸侯邦——持续了两年。

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

半先知教派的带孔和不带孔的浮雕标记是已知的，而且显然都非常罕见。

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.

西尔（也称为 sihr）是 20 世纪中叶之前在亚洲大部分地区使用的传统质量和体积单位，由《度量衡标准法》（1956 年第 89 号，1960 年修订）正式定义。 1964 年）精确等于 1.25 公斤（2.8 磅），但可接受的重量存在差异，并且取决于地点。

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.

该类型在切斯特·克劳斯 (Chester Krause) 和克利福德·米什勒 (Clifford Mishler) 编写的《世界硬币标准目录》中被分类为 KM-Tn3，在 1952 年乔治六世统治末期的《英联邦国家硬币》中被分类为 Pridmore-34。 第 4 部分： 印度。第 2 卷：东印度公司 1835-58 年，帝国时期 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.

根据拍卖行的说法，“这是我们所知道的唯一已知样本”，而 Coin World 的研究表明，可能只有两个带有孔的代币存在。

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.

这种代币的销售凸显了一个市场现实：无论原产国如何，代币的售价几乎普遍远低于同类硬币的稀有度。

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.

该代币经专业硬币评级服务机构评定为铸币厂州 63 棕色，预售估价为 2,500 至 3,500 美元，这肯定只是同期英属印度相对稀有硬币的可能价格的一小部分。