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Auction 23  10-12 September 2015
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Lot 1929

Starting price: 220 USD
Price realized: 550 USD
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BOMBAY PRESIDENCY: "tin" 2 pice (30.82g), 1741, KM-157.1, East India Company issue, AUSPICIO/REGISET/SENATUS/ANGLIAE/ date below, usual sprue mark at top, dated examples are rarely encountered, Fine, R. Very little has been known about the tin series until Dr. Stevens' book on Bombay, which will be a most welcome addition to numismatic libraries. Paul Stevens has ascertained that these coins were tin up to 1717. From 1740 to 1770 the alloy was changed to one called tutenag, which was mostly zinc, imported by the East India Company from China.

Estimate: 250- 350 USD
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