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1/4 Pice
| Issuer | East India Company |
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| Year | 1816-1826 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | VEIC (Translation: United East India Company) |
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The East India Company's consolidation of its copper coinage in the early nineteenth century was driven as much by administrative frustration as economic planning — the subcontinent had accumulated a chaotic tangle of local issues, bazaar tokens, and regional weights that made taxation and trade settlement genuinely difficult. These small-denomination pieces were part of a broader push toward uniform Company coinage following the 1835 reforms in embryo, though the fraction itself saw limited uptake outside Bengal Presidency.
KM#219 is among the smaller copper fractions the Company struck at Calcutta during this window.