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E.I.C. Madras Presidency
East India Company, Madras Presidency, Reformation 1807-18, silver Quarter-Pagoda, second issue, type P/XIV, seven-tiered Gopuram of a temple flanked by 9 stars either side, surrounded by ribbon inscribed quarter · pagoda ·, pau hun phuli [Quarter of a star pagoda], partly-shaded oval buckle with cross tongue, rev. Vishnu holding sword in left hand, rising from a lotus flower, surrounded by two concentric circles of pellets, flanked by 11 pellets on left and 9 pellets on right, pellet above Vishnu but no pellet below, legend in Tamil and Telugu, kal vara kun . kal vara hun [Quarter of a star pagoda], 10.58g/12h (Prid. 176 [Sale, lot 377]; Stevens 3.199; KM. 352). Some spotting on obverse, otherwise very fine, grey tone [certified and graded NGC XF 45] £140-£180
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Owner's ticket, together with an earlier ticket referencing Edgar Thurston's book, History of the Coinage of the Territories of the East India Company in the Indian peninsula: and Catalogue of the Coins in the Madras Museum (Chennai, 1890)
East India Company, Madras Presidency, Reformation 1807-18, silver Quarter-Pagoda, second issue, type P/XIV, seven-tiered Gopuram of a temple flanked by 9 stars either side, surrounded by ribbon inscribed quarter · pagoda ·, pau hun phuli [Quarter of a star pagoda], partly-shaded oval buckle with cross tongue, rev. Vishnu holding sword in left hand, rising from a lotus flower, surrounded by two concentric circles of pellets, flanked by 11 pellets on left and 9 pellets on right, pellet above Vishnu but no pellet below, legend in Tamil and Telugu, kal vara kun . kal vara hun [Quarter of a star pagoda], 10.58g/12h (Prid. 176 [Sale, lot 377]; Stevens 3.199; KM. 352). Some spotting on obverse, otherwise very fine, grey tone [certified and graded NGC XF 45] £140-£180
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Owner's ticket, together with an earlier ticket referencing Edgar Thurston's book, History of the Coinage of the Territories of the East India Company in the Indian peninsula: and Catalogue of the Coins in the Madras Museum (Chennai, 1890)