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| 背面描述 | The field is strewn (semée) with five fleurs-de-lis arranged in a quincunx pattern, characteristic of the French royal heraldic tradition. The fleurs-de-lis are rendered in a stylized, somewhat abstracted form consistent with the hammered technique employed at the Pondicherry mint. Additional small pellets or ornamental devices fill the interstices of the field. The flan is irregular and slightly convex, with no encircling legend or inscription. |
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| 铸造量 | ND (1715-1774) |
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The French East India Company's Pondicherry pagoda was struck in deliberate imitation of indigenous south Indian gold coinage — a calculated commercial decision, not a stylistic one. European traders operating on the Coromandel Coast quickly learned that local merchants would discount or refuse European-style coins outright, forcing the French, like their Dutch and English rivals, to mint currency that could pass invisibly through regional bazaar trade.
The Company lost its royal privileges and was effectively dissolved by Louis XV in 1769, yet Pondicherry continued striking pagodas for several years afterward, supplying a market that had no interest in metropolitan French monetary politics.