East India Company, Bombay Presidency, Later coinages: Local minting, copper Half-Pice (2), 1803, balemark, rev. scales, adil [Justice] between pans, 5.15g/12h (Prid. 178, this coin illustrated [Sale, lot 488]; Stevens 3.74; KM. 202); 1816, similar, 5.17g/7h (Prid. 183 [Sale, lot 488]; Stevens 3.79; KM. 197) [2]. Fine to very fine, both very rare £120-£150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Puddester Collection.

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F. Pridmore Collection, Part II, Glendining Auction (London), 18-19 October 1982, lot 488 (part), tickets
Bt Spink (London) May 1983.

Owner’s tickets.

Literature:
First illustrated in Fred Pridmore, The Coins of the British Commonwealth of Nations...Part 4, India, Volume I, p.163