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1/2 Fanon Pondichery
| Issuer | French East India Company (Compagnie des Indes Orientales) |
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| Year | 1715-1720 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Central device consists of a stylized mural or royal crown depicted frontally, rendered in a bold hammered relief with a row of large globular pellets rising above a crenellated crown form. The lower portion of the crown features a horizontal band decorated with a row of smaller pellets, below which a plain fillet completes the base of the design. The composition fills the flan without any surrounding legend or inscription, in keeping with the anonymous, non-inscribed character of this colonial fanon coinage. The execution is characteristic of the local hammered tradition at the Pondicherry mint, combining French heraldic iconography with South Indian minting technique. The flan is irregular in outline, as is typical for this series. |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Pondicherry |
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