4 Pies

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.