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Auction: 22120 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 16: Indian and Islamic Coins - e-Auction
Lot: 392

South India, Colonial Period, Madras (c.1643-7), gold Half- Pagoda, 1.71g, crude figure of Vishnu, holding conch and discus, rev. blank with natural granulation (Pr.1; see also Tavernier 'Six Voyages, English & Holland Money' figs 1 & 2; Lingen, J. Note on the earliest Madras pagoda struck by the British E.I.C., Numismatic Circular, vol. LXXXVII-1 (1979) 2-3, https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=56879; Mears, Felicitas 2011, type SG10), crudely struck but with little wear, extremely fine

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Starting price
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