Catalog
1 Cent Madras mint
| Issuer | British East India Company |
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| Year | 1825-1828 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1786-1826) |
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| Obverse lettering | AUSPICIO REGIS ET SENATUS ANGLIÆ 1825 (Translation: Under the auspice of the king and senate of England 1825) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Additional information |
The Madras Presidency cent of this period was part of a broader Company effort to rationalize a chaotic local currency system that had accumulated decades of overlapping native, Portuguese, and earlier Company coinages. The Madras mint at the time operated under significant logistical constraints, and production across the 1825–1828 window was uneven enough that date-specific examples show measurable die variation.