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366, Lot: 272. Estimate $300.
Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

COLONIAL ISSUES, British India. Madras Presidency. 1652-1835. AV Pulicat Pagoda (11mm, 3.39 g). Porto Novo type. Negapatnam mint. Struck after 1781. Vishnu standing facing / Granular convex surface. Pridmore, p. 45, note; Scholten 1228 note; cf. Friedberg 1506 (for type); David Fore Collection (Baldwin’s 84), lot 2090. EF, traces of light deposits.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Stephen Album, September 1981.

This type was struck at Negapatnam after its capture by the British in 1781 under the authority of the East India Company's agent, Captain Scott, and is therefore commonly known as Scott's Pagoda or the Iskat Pagoda.