Madras AH 1212 cash
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This specimen was lot 2762 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $72. The catalog description[1] noted, "MADRAS PRESIDENCY: AE cash, Salem (Selam), AH1212, shield with letters CVEI // Arabic saylam / 1212 / sana, VF, R." The Madras mint, a facility of the British East India Company, minted pagodas under license from the Mughal emperor since the seventeenth century. 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.
Specifications: copper, this specimen 1.16 g.
Catalog reference: KM-312, Prid-106, Stv-5.104.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- 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 51, featuring the Howard Daniel III Collection of Asian Coins, the Almer H. Orr III Collection of World Coins and the Joe Sedillot Collection of German Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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