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East India Company, Bombay Presidency, Early coinages: English design, silver Anglina, type...
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The third silver coin struck at Bombay, the first type of ‘Pax Deo’ Anglina East India Company, Bombay Presidency, Early coinages: English design, silver Anglina, type IIIa [1676+], Company arms, widely-spaced ornaments in shield, rev. moneta bombaiensis [Money of Bombay] around pax deo [Peace cometh from God], as unbarred, otherwise correct letters in legend, 11.79g/9h (Prid. 16, this coin illustrated [Sale, lot 449]; Stevens 1.8; KM. 140). Struck slightly off-centre, otherwise about extremely fine and toned, very rare [certified and graded NGC AU 53] £40,000-£50,000 --- Provenance: H.A. Parsons Collection, Part II, Glendining Auction (London), 11-13 May 1954, lot 886 With Seaby (London) F. Pridmore Collection, Part II, Glendining Auction (London), 18-19 October 1982, lot 449, ticket Bt Spink (London) February 1983. Owner’s ticket. Literature: Illustrated in Fred Pridmore, The Coins of the British Commonwealth of Nations...Part 4, India, Volume I, p.149. The pressing need for money to pay the garrison forced the silver mint to re-open in November 1675. The first coins struck were some of the previous interlinked cs design, but by the commencement of 1676 (NS) ‘Pax Deo’ rupees were being minted and, apart from a brief attempt at coining rupees in a mill press to a different design in 1678 (see Lots 327-8), they continued to be struck in several succeeding years of Charles II’s reign
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The third silver coin struck at Bombay, the first type of ‘Pax Deo’ Anglina East India Company, Bombay Presidency, Early coinages: English design, silver Anglina, type IIIa [1676+], Company arms, widely-spaced ornaments in shield, rev. moneta bombaiensis [Money of Bombay] around pax deo [Peace cometh from God], as unbarred, otherwise correct letters in legend, 11.79g/9h (Prid. 16, this coin illustrated [Sale, lot 449]; Stevens 1.8; KM. 140). Struck slightly off-centre, otherwise about extremely fine and toned, very rare [certified and graded NGC AU 53] £40,000-£50,000 --- Provenance: H.A. Parsons Collection, Part II, Glendining Auction (London), 11-13 May 1954, lot 886 With Seaby (London) F. Pridmore Collection, Part II, Glendining Auction (London), 18-19 October 1982, lot 449, ticket Bt Spink (London) February 1983. Owner’s ticket. Literature: Illustrated in Fred Pridmore, The Coins of the British Commonwealth of Nations...Part 4, India, Volume I, p.149. The pressing need for money to pay the garrison forced the silver mint to re-open in November 1675. The first coins struck were some of the previous interlinked cs design, but by the commencement of 1676 (NS) ‘Pax Deo’ rupees were being minted and, apart from a brief attempt at coining rupees in a mill press to a different design in 1678 (see Lots 327-8), they continued to be struck in several succeeding years of Charles II’s reign
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