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1 Fanon Pondichery
| Issuer | French East India Company (Compagnie des Indes) |
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| Year | 1837 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1837 |
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By 1837, the French East India Company had long since been dissolved — the original Compagnie des Indes collapsed in 1769 — making this issue a product of direct French colonial administration in Pondicherry rather than any active trading company. The "Compagnie des Indes" attribution on these later fanons is essentially a historical fiction maintained by convention, referring to French Indian territorial coinage rather than a functioning corporate entity.
The fanon itself was a local unit of account rooted in South Indian monetary custom, adopted and perpetuated by French authorities to facilitate trade with the local population.