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E.I.C. Bombay Presidency
One of the first coins struck at the new Bombay Mint – an exceptionally rare Pattern Quarter-Anna, 1830
East India Company, Bombay Presidency, Later Uniform coinages, 1830-5, Bombay dies, copper Pattern Quarter-Anna, 1830/1246h, unsigned, arms and supporters, east india company above, date below, rev. scales with small pans, quarter anna above, adil [Justice] between pans, date below, edge plain, 6.54g/6h (Prid. – [not in Sale]; Stevens 5.18, this coin; KM. –). Good extremely fine, much original colour on obverse, exceptionally rare and almost certainly the only known specimen in private hands [certified and graded NGC MS 62 BN]
£1,200-£1,500
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Provenance: SNC (London) June 1984 (3801).
Owner's ticket.
The only other specimen seen by the cataloguer is in the British Museum (ex Clarke-Thornhill 1935-4-1-12255)
One of the first coins struck at the new Bombay Mint – an exceptionally rare Pattern Quarter-Anna, 1830
East India Company, Bombay Presidency, Later Uniform coinages, 1830-5, Bombay dies, copper Pattern Quarter-Anna, 1830/1246h, unsigned, arms and supporters, east india company above, date below, rev. scales with small pans, quarter anna above, adil [Justice] between pans, date below, edge plain, 6.54g/6h (Prid. – [not in Sale]; Stevens 5.18, this coin; KM. –). Good extremely fine, much original colour on obverse, exceptionally rare and almost certainly the only known specimen in private hands [certified and graded NGC MS 62 BN]
£1,200-£1,500
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Provenance: SNC (London) June 1984 (3801).
Owner's ticket.
The only other specimen seen by the cataloguer is in the British Museum (ex Clarke-Thornhill 1935-4-1-12255)