The Puddester Collection

The Uniform Coinage of India, East India Company, Victoria, gold Mohur, 1841 [1841-50], type I, Madras, bust left, s [John Smith] on truncation, victoria queen continuous, date below with stop to right, 4 with upper crosslet, rev. lion walking left, palm-tree behind, east india company above, one mohur, yek ashrafi in exergue, edge grained, 11.67g/12h (Prid. 20 [Sale, lot 11, this coin]; SW 2.3; KM. 461.3; F 1595; cf. Fore III, 2456). About extremely fine, rare £4,000-£6,000

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

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F. Pridmore Collection, Part III, Glendining Auction (London), 17 October 1983, lot 11 [acquired by August 1969], ticket
Sir John Wheeler Collection, Baldwin Auction 22 (London), 2 May 2000, lot 203.

Owner’s ticket and envelope.

Mintage 32,276. John Thomas Smith (1805-82), Mint Master at Madras from February 1840 to September 1855