Indian Coins

Sale 64    12–13 Jul 2000   Dallas Brooks Centre   Melbourne

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Lot 2670       Indian Coins

Estimate $150
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $180

DUTCH INDIA, Negapatam mint, Indian Style Coinage, Hindu System, Gold pagoda, late version, c.1747-1781, Struck at Negapatam mint under Dutch control, (3.384 grams), obv. single standing deity, (Vishnu), on either side bent flaps, five dots above on each side, U U on both sides, waves below, rev. convex and granulated, (Scholten 1229b [p.139, Plate XV]). Nearly extremely fine, rare.

A new an different style of the single standing deity on the obverse issued after 1747 with a lower fineness of 0.800 which was of similar fineness as the star pagoda of Madras and the pagoda of the Nawab. A further reduction took place in 1767 to a new fineness 0.769.

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