The Puddester Collection (Part I)

East India Company, Bombay Presidency, Early coinages: English design, copper Pice in the name of George II (1727-60), GR type, 1728, crown dividing g r, bomb below, rev. [a]vspici[o regis et [s]enatus angliæ [Under the patronage of the King and Parliament of England] in four lines, floral ornament above, 9.26g/9h (Prid. 104 [Sale, lot 469]; Stevens 2.104; KM. 150). Very fine and exceptionally rare with a clear date, almost certainly the finest copper Pice of this type in private hands £700-£900

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

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Baldwin Auction 35 (London), 13-15 October 2003, lot 1723.

Owner’s ticket and envelope.

The copper pice of this type are so rare and for the most part so ill-struck that it was not until 1985, and the publication of another specimen by Paul Stevens (SCMB September 1985, p.279: Stevens p.234: Stevens website image 739, first coin), that dates other than that for the reduced weight issue of 1749 could be confirmed