East India Company, Bengal Presidency, Calcutta Mint: Second milled issue, copper Pice (5), in the name of ‘Shah ‘Alam II (1173-1221h/1759-1806), frozen regnal yr 37 [1796], sanah julus 37 shah alam badshah [in the 37th year of the emperor Shah ‘Alam], revs. ek pai sikka/yek pai sikka/ek pai sikka [one pai sikka], 30.6mm, 8.73g/12h, 29.8mm (2), 9.13g/12h, 8.67g/12h, 29.2mm, 8.80g/12h, 27.5mm, 7.87g/12h (Prid. 204 [Sale, lot 629]; Stevens 4.29; KM. 52-3) [5]. Second good very fine but flan slightly bent, fourth very fine, others fine £60-£80

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

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Fourth bt in Singapore
Others E. Wodak (Melbourne) Collection; C.E. Pitchfork Collection, Part III, Noble Numismatics Auction 48 (Melbourne), 11-13 July 1995, lot 2142 (part) [acquired c. 1970-1]; R.A. Climpson Collection, Noble Numismatics Auction 85B (Melbourne), 25 July 2007, lot 2154 (part).

Owner’s tickets.

The fifth coin is the lightest of those in the significant Wodak/Pitchfork/Climpson study group of this series