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1 Royalin - Frederik V Pattern
| Issuer | Danish East India Company |
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| Year | 1756 |
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| Value | 1 Royalin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays the crowned Danish heraldic lion passant within a central shield, flanked by the divided date 17 - 56 in the field to either side. Above the shield, the denomination inscription occupies two lines across the upper portion of the coin, reading '·I· ROYALIN'. The border is formed by a continuous row of raised beads matching the obverse, lending a uniform decorative frame to this small gold pattern piece. |
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The Danish East India Company's Tranquebar settlement on the Coromandel Coast used a bewildering tangle of local denominations, and the royalin series was an attempt to impose some rational accounting on trade conducted in fanams, cash, and rupees. This 1756 pattern was never authorized for circulation — it exists as a proposal, almost certainly struck in Copenhagen rather than Tranquebar itself, at a moment when the Company's finances were deteriorating badly enough that new coinage schemes were being floated and abandoned in quick succession.
Fewer than a handful of specimens are recorded. Sieg's cataloguing remains the primary reference for Tranquebar rarities of this type.