Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
2 Fanon Pondichery
| Issuer | Compagnie des Indes (French East India Company) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1720 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Rupee |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Pondicherry Mint |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
The Compagnie des Indes received its charter in 1719 under John Law's sweeping reorganization of French colonial commerce — the same financial restructuring that collapsed catastrophically in 1720 as the Mississippi Bubble. Coins struck that year exist in a peculiar administrative limbo: minted under a company whose metropolitan financial basis was disintegrating even as the dies were being cut in Pondicherry.
The fanon was a local unit of account rooted in South Indian trade custom, not French monetary tradition. Striking it in high-grade silver was a deliberate concession to the Coromandel Coast merchants who would accept nothing less.