BOMBAY PRESIDENCY: AE pice (copperoon) (14.06g), 1674, KM-A143, shield of the East India Company surrounded by HON:SOC:ANG:IND:ORI: (Honorabilis Societas Anglicana Indiarum Orientalium) // inside circle, MON BOMBAY ANGLIC REGIMS Ao9o in circle of beads surrounded by legend, A DEO PAX ET INCREMENTVM 74, Fine. This coin was used to pay workers and soldiers, in the Deccan. Ao9o is anno 9 the 9th year counting from 1665, the year Bombay was transferred from Portuguese to British rule, so the coin is of the year 1674.