British East India Company
Lot 2038 British East India Company
Estimate $200
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SOLD $120
MADRAS PRESIDENCY, Fort St. David or Tegnapatam, copper cash, c. 1740, inscribed in Tamil either side, 'Honourable' on obverse and 'Company' on reverse, (Pr. 289, KM. 378). Very fine and excessively rare.
Ex Spink & Son, London, Numismatic Circular September 1976 (7895) and Colin E. Pitchfork Collection, Noble Numismatics Sale 48 (lot 2039). The Pridmore specimen described as fine and excessively rare (lot 419) realised £150.
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