Madras (1807) 40 cash
This specimen was lot 2603 in Stephen Album sale 50 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $390. The catalog description[1] noted, "MADRAS PRESIDENCY: AE 40 cash, (1807), East India Company issue, denominations in Persian, English, Tamil and Telugu, minor weakness, VF, ex Solar Collection." The Madras mint, a facility of the British East India Company, minted pagodas and rupees under license from the Mughal emperor since the seventeenth century. This series, which included five, ten and twenty cash, was probably the last made locally; thereafter, company officials ordered coins from Birmingham. Varieties exist.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 19.31 g, copper, 36 mm diameter, this specimen 20.07 g.
Catalog reference: KM-331.1.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Stevens, Paul, The Coins of the English East India Company, Presidency Series: A Catalogue and Pricelist. London, Spink & Son Ltd, 2017.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 50, featuring selections from the Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld Collection, the Hakim Hamidi Collection, the Almer H. Orr III Collection and the Solar Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
Links to:
- Madras 1803 cash
- Madras 1803 5 cash KM-316 heavy
- Madras 1803 5 cash KM-317 light
- Madras 1803 10 cash
- Madras 1803 20 cash
- Madras (1807) 5 cash KM-324 = ¼ dub
- Madras (1807) 10 cash KM-327 = ½ dub
- Madras (1807) 20 cash KM-329 = dub
- Madras (1807) 1/4 pagoda
- Madras (1807) 1/2 pagoda
- 1808 ½ dub (10 cash), small date
- Madras 1808 10 cash
- Madras 1808 20 cash
- Coins and currency dated 1807