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2 Pice
| Issuer | East India Company |
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| Year | 1802-1813 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Reverse script | Arabic/Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The East India Company's Madras Presidency coinage of this period was an administrative patchwork — multiple local mints operating under inconsistent supervision, producing coins that varied considerably in fabric and execution despite nominally identical specifications. KM#199 was struck at Soho Mint in Birmingham under contract with Boulton & Watt, whose steam-powered presses represented a deliberate Company effort to undercut the endemic counterfeiting that had plagued copper circulation in southern India for decades.
The Soho-struck pieces are generally distinguishable from later Calcutta-produced examples by their more consistent planchet preparation.