The Puddester Collection (Part I)

East India Company, Madras Presidency, Reformation 1807-18, silver Quarter-Pagoda, second issue, type G/VIII, seven-tiered Gopuram of a temple flanked by 9 stars either side, surrounded by ribbon inscribed quarter pagoda, pau hun phuli [Quarter of a star pagoda], unshaded oval buckle with cross tongue, rev. Vishnu holding sword in left hand, rising from a lotus flower, surrounded by two concentric circles of pellets, flanked by 13 pellets on left and 11 pellets on right, no pellet above or below Vishnu, legend in Tamil and Telugu, kal vara kun · kal vara hun [Quarter of a star pagoda], 10.55g/12h (Prid. – [not in Sale]; Stevens 3.176; Snartt, SNC September 1976, p.319, no.3, this coin; KM. 352). Extremely fine and attractively toned, rare [certified and graded NGC AU 55] £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Puddester Collection.

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P. Snartt (Bristol, UK) Collection
SNC (London) April 1980 (3021), ticket.

Owner’s ticket.

Literature:
Peter Snartt, ‘Some unpublished varieties of E.I.C. Madras coins’, SNC September 1976, p.319