Bombay 1794 pice
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This specimen was lot 2390 in Stephen Album sale 27 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2017), where it sold for $211.50. The catalog description[1] noted, "BOMBAY PRESIDENCY: AE pice, [Soho mint], 1794. no dot below pivot (reverse III), NGC graded PF64 BR." This type was manufactured for the British East India Company by the Soho mint of Birmingham in 1791 and 1794. It was accompanied by copper half, 1½ and two pice, all fairly common. This specimen realized 2½ times the catalog value.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 10.62 g, copper.
Catalog reference: Stv-8.32. Prid-133. KM-193.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 27, featuring the Dr. Paul Stevens Collection of Indian Coins, Part VI, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2016.
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