† Coins of India. East India Company. Ma dras Presidency, ½-Pagoda, 1807, overstruck on an 8-Reales, fourteen stars each side of the gopuram, three poles extending from the top of the gopuram, the right side windows engraved all the way to the top, rev one dot between the legs of Vishnu, four rows of dots surrounding the deity (Pr 1 52; KM 344).Extremely fine and very lustrous, light evidence of the 8-Reales undertype. Part of the David Fore Collection of British Indian Coins. £1500-2500
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