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| Issuer | Madras Presidency |
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| Year | 1678 |
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| Diameter | 8 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicting a stylized figure, likely a balemark or merchant's mark of the East India Company, rendered in a crude hammered style characteristic of early Madras Presidency coinage. The design is enclosed within a beaded border of pellets arranged around the circumference. The last two digits of the regnal or Christian year '78' appear in the field, serving as a date reference. The overall execution is typical of the rough, irregular hammered coinage produced at Fort St. George in the late seventeenth century. |
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| Obverse lettering | 78 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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