The Puddester Collection (Part I)

East India Company, Madras Presidency, European Minting, 1803-8, Soho, bronzed-copper Proof 10 Cash, 1803, light issue, arms and supporters, east india company above, date below, rev. dah kas do falus ast [Ten cash make two falus], x . cash in exergue, edge plain, 4.76g/6h (Prid. – [not in Sale]; Stevens 5.129; cf. KM. 319). Some light spotting, otherwise brilliant and virtually as struck, extremely rare [certified and graded NGC PF 64 BN] £400-£500

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

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SNC (London) February 1981 (1225).

Owner’s ticket.

In all probability the light weight of an 1803-dated proof coin of this type would suggest a coin struck either contemporaneously with the 1808 coins of this weight standard in 1808-9, or, more likely, a restrike made c. 1830, as suggested by Peter Snartt for a parallel coin in the E.I.C. Sumatra series (’An unusual E.I.C. coin of Sumatra’, SNC July-August 1978, p.361)