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2 Pice
| Issuer | East India Company |
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| Year | 1808-1829 |
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| Value | 2 Pice = 8 Reas = 1/2 Anna (1⁄32) |
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| Obverse lettering | 1828 VEIC (Translation: United East India Company) |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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The East India Company's Madras Presidency coinage of this period was produced primarily at the Soho Mint in Birmingham under Matthew Boulton's operation, using steam-powered presses that were still a novelty in colonial coinage production. The Company had been issuing its own currency across its Indian territories for well over a century by this point, a commercial arrangement that persisted largely because the British Crown had little appetite for the administrative cost of formal monetary oversight in the subcontinent.
KM#200 is associated with the Madras series, where the dual-denomination pice system served trade across a presidency that stretched from the Coromandel Coast well into the interior.