1/2 Mohur - Edvard VII [Sumer Singh]

Jodhpur's gold coinage of this period occupies an unusual position in Indian numismatics: the state retained the right to strike its own precious metal issues well into the twentieth century, even as British India had long since standardized its own gold output through Calcutta and Bombay. These half mohurs were produced under Maharaja Sumer Singh, who came to the throne as a minor in 1911 and died in 1918 at just twenty years old — the entire reign encompassed by this type's date range, with no successor issue in gold following his death.