The Puddester Collection (Part I)

East India Company, Bombay Presidency, Early coinages: English design, copper Copperoons (2), AoD92 [1692], arms of the Company, [a deo pax et incrementvm] [Peace and increase cometh from God] around, rev. [hon soc ang ind orien] [The honourable English Company of the East Indies] around mon[et b]onb[ay a]ngl[ici regims AoD92 [Money of the English Government of Bombay 1692] in five lines in centre, 13.71g/9h (Prid. 93 [Sale, lot 464]; Stevens 1.57; KM. 146); 1703, similar, reads angiic, second i barred, normal 3 in date, 13.49g/8h (Prid. 94; Stevens 1.59; KM. –) [2]. First fair and with surface verdigris but very rare, second fine and with a contemporary provenance suggesting it was an early returnee to England with one of the Company’s merchants £90-£120

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

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First bt T. Munson (Petoskey, MI) June 1979
Second Abp J. Sharp Collection, Glendining Auction (London), 5 October 1977, lot 350; SNC (London) November 1980 (9346), ticket.

Owner’s tickets.

John Sharp (c. 1645-1714), appointed Archbishop of York in 1691, began collecting coins in 1687 and was in contact with several other English numismatists of the day, including John Evelyn. The collection was left to his son and passed down the family for more than 250 years, before being organised by the late Owen Parsons and catalogued for two auctions, one of world coins and historical medals at Sotheby’s in 1966, the other of English coins in 1977. Sharp provenances are among the oldest available in numismatics