The Puddester Collection (Part I)

East India Company, Madras Presidency, Reformation 1807-18, silver Quarter-Pagoda, first issue, type B/III, seven-tiered Gopuram of a temple flanked by 11 stars on either side of top central star, surrounded by ribbon inscribed quarter · pagoda ·, pau hun phuli [Quarter of a star pagoda], ago under base of Gopuram, Persian legend facing outwards, rev. Vishnu holding sword, rising from a lotus flower, surrounded by three concentric circles of pellets, flanked by 14 pellets on left and 11 pellets on right, legend in Tamil and Telugu divided by single pellet, kal vara kun/kai vara hun [Quarter of a star pagoda], eight characters in Tamil legend, 10.56g/12h (Prid. – [not in Sale]; Stevens 3.54; Snartt, SNC 1976, p.319 [assigned Prid. 156a]; KM. 343). Very fine and toned, rare [certified and graded NGC XF 45]
£600-£800

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

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Robert Senior (Glastonbury, UK) FPL 4, Winter 1982 (249)
Bt R.C. Senior February 1983.

Owner’s ticket.

Literature:
Illustrated in Peter Snartt, ‘Some Unpublished Varieties of E.I.C. Madras Coins’, SNC September 1976