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East India Company, Bombay Presidency, Early coinages: English design, silver Anglina, type...
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The second silver coin struck at Bombay, probably a Pattern and believed UNIQUE East India Company, Bombay Presidency, Early coinages: English design, silver Anglina, type II, 1674, Company arms, hon : soc : ang : ind : ori · [The Honourable English Company of the East Indies] around, rev. a deo : pax : et : incrementvm · [Peace and increase cometh from God] around two interlinked cs [Charles and Catherine] crowned and surmounted by a cross, 11.66g/10h (Prid. 14, this coin illustrated [Sale, lot 448]; Stevens 1.4, this coin illustrated; Stevens website image 687, this coin; KM. 137). Obverse slightly off-centre, otherwise almost extremely fine and toned, of the highest rarity, perhaps the only known specimen [certified and graded NGC AU 58] £70,000-£90,000 --- Provenance: F. Pridmore Collection, Part II, Glendining Auction (London), 18-19 October 1982, lot 448 SNC (London) June 1984 (3787) Sir John Wheeler Collection, Baldwin Auction 22 (London), 2 May 2000, lot 72. Owner’s ticket and envelope. Literature: Illustrated in Fred Pridmore, The Coins of the British Commonwealth of Nations...Part 4, India, Volume I, p.148 Illustrated in Paul Stevens, The Coins of the English East India Company, Presidency Series: A Catalogue and Pricelist, p.193 Illustrated in Paul Stevens, The Coinage of the Bombay Presidency: A study of the records of the EIC, p.6. To overcome the dislike of the Portuguese to the 1672 silver coins, Aungier suggested two new designs in June 1674. One was to incorporate two interlinked Cs (Charles and Catherine), as per the English silver twopence, and renaming the coins ingreses (English); the other was to introduce a rupee coin with Persian legends but, apparently, with the name and titles of Charles II and the Company’s arms (Prid. 15). Dies were prepared for both types and, while a small quantity of anglinas dated 1674 were struck in 1675, no specimens of the rupee with Persian legends, recorded as having been seen by the 18th century numismatic author Martin Folkes, appear to have survived
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The second silver coin struck at Bombay, probably a Pattern and believed UNIQUE East India Company, Bombay Presidency, Early coinages: English design, silver Anglina, type II, 1674, Company arms, hon : soc : ang : ind : ori · [The Honourable English Company of the East Indies] around, rev. a deo : pax : et : incrementvm · [Peace and increase cometh from God] around two interlinked cs [Charles and Catherine] crowned and surmounted by a cross, 11.66g/10h (Prid. 14, this coin illustrated [Sale, lot 448]; Stevens 1.4, this coin illustrated; Stevens website image 687, this coin; KM. 137). Obverse slightly off-centre, otherwise almost extremely fine and toned, of the highest rarity, perhaps the only known specimen [certified and graded NGC AU 58] £70,000-£90,000 --- Provenance: F. Pridmore Collection, Part II, Glendining Auction (London), 18-19 October 1982, lot 448 SNC (London) June 1984 (3787) Sir John Wheeler Collection, Baldwin Auction 22 (London), 2 May 2000, lot 72. Owner’s ticket and envelope. Literature: Illustrated in Fred Pridmore, The Coins of the British Commonwealth of Nations...Part 4, India, Volume I, p.148 Illustrated in Paul Stevens, The Coins of the English East India Company, Presidency Series: A Catalogue and Pricelist, p.193 Illustrated in Paul Stevens, The Coinage of the Bombay Presidency: A study of the records of the EIC, p.6. To overcome the dislike of the Portuguese to the 1672 silver coins, Aungier suggested two new designs in June 1674. One was to incorporate two interlinked Cs (Charles and Catherine), as per the English silver twopence, and renaming the coins ingreses (English); the other was to introduce a rupee coin with Persian legends but, apparently, with the name and titles of Charles II and the Company’s arms (Prid. 15). Dies were prepared for both types and, while a small quantity of anglinas dated 1674 were struck in 1675, no specimens of the rupee with Persian legends, recorded as having been seen by the 18th century numismatic author Martin Folkes, appear to have survived
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