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E.I.C. Bombay Presidency
The Unique Tinny or Bujerook, 1716
East India Company, Bombay Presidency, Early coinages: English design, tin Tinny or Bujerook, 1716, balemark, rev. date, 1.64g/6h (Prid. 229, this coin illustrated [Sale, lot 504]; Stevens 1.72, this coin illustrated; Stevens website image 822, this coin; KM. 155). About very fine and of the highest rarity, UNIQUE £2,000-£2,600
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Provenance: J.B. Caldecott Collection, Sotheby Auction (London), 11-13 June 1912, lot 48 (part)
E.F.L. Steinthal (Manchester, UK) Collection
A.N. Brushfield Collection, Part V, Glendining Auction (London), 2-3 November 1949, lot 131 [from Seaby (London) 1930]
F. Pridmore Collection, Part II, Glendining Auction (London), 18-19 October 1982, lot 504.
Owner's ticket.
Literature:
Illustrated in Fred Pridmore, The Coins of the British Commonwealth of Nations...Part 4, India, Volume I, p.166.
The provenance quoted in the Caldecott catalogue, referring to past ownership by Hyman Montagu and Henry Grogan, should be ignored as it refers to a specimen of Prid. 249
The Unique Tinny or Bujerook, 1716
East India Company, Bombay Presidency, Early coinages: English design, tin Tinny or Bujerook, 1716, balemark, rev. date, 1.64g/6h (Prid. 229, this coin illustrated [Sale, lot 504]; Stevens 1.72, this coin illustrated; Stevens website image 822, this coin; KM. 155). About very fine and of the highest rarity, UNIQUE £2,000-£2,600
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Provenance: J.B. Caldecott Collection, Sotheby Auction (London), 11-13 June 1912, lot 48 (part)
E.F.L. Steinthal (Manchester, UK) Collection
A.N. Brushfield Collection, Part V, Glendining Auction (London), 2-3 November 1949, lot 131 [from Seaby (London) 1930]
F. Pridmore Collection, Part II, Glendining Auction (London), 18-19 October 1982, lot 504.
Owner's ticket.
Literature:
Illustrated in Fred Pridmore, The Coins of the British Commonwealth of Nations...Part 4, India, Volume I, p.166.
The provenance quoted in the Caldecott catalogue, referring to past ownership by Hyman Montagu and Henry Grogan, should be ignored as it refers to a specimen of Prid. 249