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E.I.C. Bombay Presidency
The first coin made for India by Matthew Boulton
East India Company, Bombay Presidency, European Minting, 1791-4, Soho, copper Pattern One-and-a-Half Pice or 6 Reas, 1791, unsigned [perhaps by R. Dumarest], balemark, rev. small scales, adil [Justice] below pans, edge straight-grained, 9.67g/6h (Prid. 124 [Sale, lot 477]; Stevens 8.13; KM. 194). Good extremely fine with original colour, excessively rare, very few specimens known [certified and graded NGC PF 63 BN]
£2,000-£3,000
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Provenance: P. Snartt (Bristol, UK) Collection [acquired post-April 1978]
SNC (London) May 1980 (3807), ticket.
Two owner's tickets and envelope.
One of a very small number of pattern one-and-a-half pice coined in early February 1791, prior to the reverse design being amended (see footnote to Lot 412). The Pridmore specimen passed to David Fore (Part II, lot 921); at least one other (British Museum, ex Sara Sophia Banks 160-88) is known. Sue Tungate (p.210) suggests that the artist responsible was Rambert Dumarest (1750-1806) and, although there can be no certainty of Dumarest's hand in these coins he was, in the fitful and frequent absences of Jean-Pierre Droz in the early weeks of 1791, fully engaged in most of the die work at Soho at that time
The first coin made for India by Matthew Boulton
East India Company, Bombay Presidency, European Minting, 1791-4, Soho, copper Pattern One-and-a-Half Pice or 6 Reas, 1791, unsigned [perhaps by R. Dumarest], balemark, rev. small scales, adil [Justice] below pans, edge straight-grained, 9.67g/6h (Prid. 124 [Sale, lot 477]; Stevens 8.13; KM. 194). Good extremely fine with original colour, excessively rare, very few specimens known [certified and graded NGC PF 63 BN]
£2,000-£3,000
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Provenance: P. Snartt (Bristol, UK) Collection [acquired post-April 1978]
SNC (London) May 1980 (3807), ticket.
Two owner's tickets and envelope.
One of a very small number of pattern one-and-a-half pice coined in early February 1791, prior to the reverse design being amended (see footnote to Lot 412). The Pridmore specimen passed to David Fore (Part II, lot 921); at least one other (British Museum, ex Sara Sophia Banks 160-88) is known. Sue Tungate (p.210) suggests that the artist responsible was Rambert Dumarest (1750-1806) and, although there can be no certainty of Dumarest's hand in these coins he was, in the fitful and frequent absences of Jean-Pierre Droz in the early weeks of 1791, fully engaged in most of the die work at Soho at that time