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Auction I  2 October 2016
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Lot 121

Starting price: 180 GBP
Price realized: 550 GBP
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BOMBAY PRESIDENCY: tutenag 2 pice (30.27g), Bombay, 1743, Stv-2.127, KM-157. Prid-235, nice strike, light porosity, very rare date (only 1741 and 1771 are relatively common), VF, RR, ex Paul Stevens Collection. Issues dated 1717-1718 are of tin, but from 1740 to 1771 the alloy was changed to one called tutenag (tutenague), which was mostly zinc, imported by the East India Company from China.

Estimate: 225-275 GBP
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