The Puddester Collection

East India Company, Madras Presidency, Northern Circars: European style coinages, Soho, copper Pattern Dub or Forty-Eighth Rupee, unsigned [by N.-A. Ponthon], type 2, 1793, sicca kampani isavi 1793 [Money of the company 1793], english east india company around, rev. rampant lion to left, holding crown, auspicio regis et senatus angliæ [By the authority of the King and Parliament of England] around, 48 to one rupee below, edge plain, 15.39g/9h (Prid. Bengal 371, this coin [not in Sale]; Stevens 5.155, this coin illustrated; Stevens website image 642, this coin; KM. Bengal Pn. 16, this coin). Light carbon spots on obverse and traces of old gilding, otherwise better than extremely fine, UNIQUE £3,000-£4,000

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

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H.A. Parsons Collection, Part II, Glendining Auction (London), 11-13 May 1954, lot 919
Baldwin Auction 48 (London), 26 September 2006, lot 5064
D. Fore Collection, Part II, Baldwin Auction 82 (London), 31 May 2013, lot 881, label.

Owner’s ticket and envelope.

Literature:
Illustrated in Paul Stevens, The Coins of the English East India Company, Presidency Series: A Catalogue and Pricelist, p.537