The Puddester Collection

The Uniform Coinage of India, British Imperial Period, Victoria, silver Rupee, 1877, type A3/I, Bombay, crowned and robed bust left, victoria empress, 3.75 panels in jabot, left stroke of v on bodice, crescent at point of shoulder, rev. one rupee above india and date, all within scroll-like wreath of Indian flora, top flower with curved spikes, leaf arrangement at lower left with five leaves, pellet below date, edge grained, 11.66g/12h (Prid. 150 [Sale, lot 126]; SW 6.33; KM. 492; cf. Fore III, 2391). Light rubbing on high points of bust, otherwise virtually as struck with considerable mint bloom £150-£200

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

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Bt Spink (London), envelope