1/4 Pice

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.