Madras 1803 5 cash KM-316
This specimen was lot 2864 in Stephen Album sale 37 (Santa Rosa, CA, June 2020), where it sold for $505.75. The catalog description[1] noted, "MADRAS PRESIDENCY: AE 5 cash, 1803, East India Company issue, superb example! PCGS graded MS64 RB." 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 copper coin, however, was made in Birmingham along with one, ten and twenty cash. The second issue of five cash was 2.41 g (KM 317). The assets of the East India Company were transferred to the British government after the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and the mint was closed in 1869.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 3.23 g, copper, 21 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-316.
- 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 37, featuring the Gamal Amer Collection of Egyptian Coins and the Ahmed Sultan Collection of Ottoman Coins, Part II, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.
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