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Auction I  2 October 2016
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Lot 124

Starting price: 240 GBP
Price realized: 425 GBP
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BOMBAY PRESIDENCY: tutenag 2 pice (30.32g), Bombay, ND, Stv-2.134, KM-157. Prid-240, lovely bold strike, very minor porosity, EF, R, ex Paul Stevens Collection. Includes ticket inscribed "from the Grogan sale, lot 125, and Caldecott, lot 49, £3/2/6" (for set of 2, 1, and ½ pence). 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: 300-350 GBP
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