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1 Rupee - King William and Queen Mary Anglina
| Issuer | East India Company - Bombay Presidency |
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| Year | 1692-1695 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1672-1835) |
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| Obverse description | The entire field is occupied by a two-line Persian legend in Naskh script, reading 'Sikka zad dauran King William an Queen Mary' (Coin struck during the reign of King William and Queen Mary), disposed across the coin in the Mughal rupee style. The inscription is arranged in two registers separated by a horizontal rule, with decorative floral or star ornaments filling the remaining field. The lettering is bold and deeply struck, consistent with the hammered coinage tradition of the Bombay Presidency mint. |
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| Mintage | ND (1692-1693) - RY 4, KM 148.1 - ND (1693-1694) - RY 5, KM 148.2, Pridmore# 27, - ND (1694-1695) - RY 6, KM 148.2, Pridmore# 28 - |
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The Bombay Presidency rupee of the early 1690s was struck under a royal charter that had granted the East India Company the right to coin money — a privilege jealously guarded and periodically contested by the Crown. William and Mary had jointly assumed the throne following the Glorious Revolution of 1688, and their dual title appears on this coinage as a direct reflection of that constitutional novelty: Mary held hereditary right; William ruled by parliamentary consent. No previous English monarch had shared sovereignty in quite that way, and it shows up even here, on silver struck on the Malabar coast for trade purposes.
The Bombay mint at this period operated with considerable autonomy, and output was irregular. Prid lists only a handful of die combinations for this type.