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4 Pies
| Issuer | East India Company |
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| Year | 1825 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
| Reverse lettering | 4 چهار پاي ١٢۴٠ سنه (Translation: 4 Four Pies year (AH) 1240) |
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The East India Company's Madras Presidency coinage of the 1820s was in the process of being rationalized toward a unified subcontinent-wide decimal system — a project that would eventually produce the pice and anna series under Crown authority after 1858. The 4 Pies denomination sat awkwardly in that transition, equivalent to one-twelfth of an anna, a fraction that suited local bazaar commerce but resisted tidy decimalization.
Struck at the Soho Mint in Birmingham under contract, not at Madras itself.