Madras (1807) 5 cash KM-324

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Stephen Album sale 50, lot 2600

This specimen was lot 2600 in Stephen Album sale 50 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $216. The catalog description[1] noted, "MADRAS PRESIDENCY: AE 5 cash, (1807), East India Company issue, denominations in Persian, English, Tamil and Telugu, a lovely example for type! choice VF-XF, 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 forty, ten and twenty cash, was probably the last made locally; thereafter, company officials ordered coins from Birmingham. Another issue from 1807 (KM 325) lacks the "V CASH" on the obverse.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 2.57 g, copper, this specimen 2.34 g.

Catalog reference: KM-324.

Source:

  • 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.

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