Lot 2004

Description

Madras Presidency, European Style Coinages, Second Issue, 1808, silver half pagoda, obv. Gopuram of a temple with 9 stars each side, around in English HALF PAGODA, in small letters, small buckled garter below, rev. deity Vishnu standing surrounded by dotted circles, ribbon ending in star, in native text 'half a flower (or star) pagoda', three dots below between legs of Vishnu, (Pr. 171, KM. 354). Traces of Spanish dollar undertype, weak in centre of obverse and reverse, otherwise fine and scarce.

Ex. Spink September 1951, and Wodak Collection, Geoff K. Gray Sydney Auction 13, 16th October 1970, (lot 202).