The Uniform Coinage of India, East India Company, temp. Victoria (?), original copper Pattern mule Quarter-Anna, 1833 [perhaps 1846-7], Bombay, unsigned, arms and supporters, base line below lion crest corded, ausp : reg : & sen : ang : on riband, date above, rev. yek pai one quarter anna within laurel wreath of 30 berries, east india company around, large ribbon loops flanked by four berries either side, y of company opposite a berry, edge plain, 25mm, 6.54g/12h (Prid. 139 [not in Sale]; SW 1.85; KM. 446.1; cf. Fore II, 736; cf. Puddester I, 476, same obv. die). Carbon spot on left supporter’s flag, otherwise virtually as struck with considerable original colour and brilliance, reverse toned, extremely rare; the best of the three specimens noted by the cataloguer in commerce in recent years £1,500-£2,000

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

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P. Snartt (Bristol, UK) Collection
SNC (London) May 1980 (3909), ticket.

Owner’s envelope and record card.

Pridmore (p.40) suggested that these mules were probably prepared c. 1846-7, concurrent with the introduction of uniform copper coinage in the Presidency