Coin, 10 Cash, Madras Presidency, India, 1808
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1808 AD
10 Cash, Issued by, Madras Presidency, India, 1808 Minted by Soho Mint, Birmingham Obverse: Company arms, a quartered shield (simplified oval arms of France and England in the first quarter of the shield else plain); crest of a helm with lion holding the Imperial Crown; lion supporters, each holding a banner charged with a cross; motto below on ribbon, AUSPICIO REGIS A SENATUS ANGLIAE (translation: under the auspices of the king and senate of England); around above, EAST INDIA COMPANY; below, 1808.
Reverse: Legend in Persian (translation: ten cash make two falus); in exergue, X . CASH. Edge: Plain.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 2
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Historical context
The Presidency of Madras placed a large order for copper coins with Matthew Boulton's Soho Mint, Birmingham, England in 1802. The denominations to be struck were 20, 10, 5 and 1 cash. It was cheaper to have such a large order of copper coins, some 35 million pieces, struck on Boulton' steam presses and shipped to India, than to have them struck locally.
Local production of copper coins continued through the early 1800s with the local coins circulating side by side with the British strikings. The Soho coins were designed by John Phillip and the dies engraved by Conrad Heinrich Kuchler. This coin was part of a second order in 1808 with dies derived from those of the earlier issue. In Madras they circulated at 40 cash to the fanam and 42 fanam to the pagoda.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- Copper
- Dimensions
- Overall Dimensions: 25.8 mm (Outside Diameter), 4.537 g (Weight)
Technical characteristics
- Maker recorded
- Soho (Mint); Conrad H. Kuchler - Royal Mint, London & Soho Mint, Birmingham
- Place recorded
- India
- Series recorded
- British India
- Denomination recorded
- 10 Cash
Identification
- Source note
- Transcribed from the Museums Victoria, Melbourne collection record for this single object (sentences kept verbatim apart from removed sale or rarity wording); how far it represents a wider collectible type has not been independently verified.
- Candidate id
- mv-55045
- Museum object name
- Coin - 10 Cash, Madras Presidency, India, 1808
- Holding institution
- Museums Victoria, Melbourne
- Museum object number
- NU 15062
- Published references
- Pridmore 206 KM#319
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- Issue or mint date
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Catalogue references
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Research required
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