1 Pice Copperoon

1 Pice (Copperoon) - obverse1 Pice (Copperoon) - reverse

© Milind Desai

Features

Issuer Bombay Presidency (British India)
Type Standard circulation coin
Year 1674
Value 1 Pice = ¼ Anna = 1⁄64 Rupee
Currency Rupee (1672-1835)
Composition Copper
Weight 13.5 g
Diameter 19.5 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
37274
References KM# A143
Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Coins / 2001-Date (14th edition). Krause Publications, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States.
And 5 more volumes.

Obverse

Shield of the East India Company surrounded by HON:SOC:ANG:IND:ORI: (Honorabilis Societas Anglicana Indiarum Orientalium)

Lettering: HON:SOC:ANG:IND:ORI:

Translation: Honourable English East India Company

Reverse

Inside circle (MONET) BOMBAY ANGLIC REGIMS Ao9o in circle of beads surrounded by legend: A DEO PAX ET INCREMENTVM 74

Lettering:
MON BOMBAY ANGLIC REGIMS Ao9o
A DEO PAX ET INCREMENTVM 74

Translation:
Currency of Bombay under English Regime
Peace and growth from God

Edge

Plain

1 Pice (Copperoon) -  obverse

© Milind Desai

Comments

- This coin was used to pay workers and soldiers, in the Deccan.
- Ao9o is anno 9 the 9th year counting from 1665, the year Bombay was transferred from Portuguese to British rule, so the coin is of the year 1674.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1674  Bombay mint

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