Watch List notes:

INDIA, British, Madras Presidency, EIC, silver quarter pagoda, first issue (1807), obv. Gopuram of a temple with 9 stars each side, around in English QUARTER PAGODA, in letters with stops, star above no garter below, rev. deity Vishnu standing surrounded by dotted circles, ribbon ending in star, in native text 'half a flower (or star) pagoda', with dot under legs of Vishnu. (Pridmore 155; KM.343). Bright, nearly very fine and rare.

Ex John C. Cresswell Collection.