| Product
Code |
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PUD NO_868-1_AR |
| Subject | : | Akola Exhibition |
| Size | : | 48 mm |
| Metal | : | Silver |
| Year | : | 1868 |
| Description | : | obv. Indian farmer leaning against an ox with farming utensils scattered around, around border : THE PEACEFUL INDUSTRY OF INDIA. Signed : J.S. & A.B. WYON SC., rev : Within a laurel wreath : AKOKA / EXHIBITION / 1868.
Akola was a leading city in Berar which was, in 1853, assigned to the East India Company as part of a financial arrangement with His Exalted Highness, the Nizam of Hyderabad (the only chief in India entitled to the honorific ‘Exalted’), for the maintenance of the Hyderabad contingent of troops, and in 1903 was leased in perpetuity to the Central Provinces. Today, Akola is a small (pop. 240,000), relatively insignificant town in the State of Maharashtra, noted chiefly as a marketing centre. |
