The Puddester Collection (Part I)

East India Company, Bombay Presidency, Later Uniform coinages, 1830-5, Calcutta dies, copper Proof Half-Anna, 1834/1249h, type I, arms and supporters, east india company above, date below, rev. scales, half anna in medium letters above, adil [Justice] between pans, date below, broad rims, edge plain, 31mm, 12.65g/12h (Prid. 214 [Sale, lot 498]; Stevens 5.26; KM. 251). Virtually as struck and most attractive, extremely rare, four specimens in Snartt survey [certified and graded NGC PF 63 BN] £1,500-£1,800

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 (3849), ticket.

Owner’s ticket.

The request for matrix dies from Calcutta, made in August 1833, was fulfilled in February 1834. Coins with the frozen dates 1833 and 1834 were made from these dies until 1844, when they were replaced by dies sent from Calcutta conforming to the post-1835 uniform currency