Live auction - fwo_495791 - FRENCH INDIA Biche de Mahé 1790 Pondichéry

FRENCH INDIA Biche de Mahé 1790 Pondichéry XF

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Estimate :	225 €
Price :	125 €
Maximum bid :	125 €
End of the sale :	31 July 2018 19:07:28
bidders :	1 bidder

Type : Biche de Mahé

Date: 1790

Mint name / Town : Pondichéry

Quantity minted : -

Metal : copper

Diameter : 20 mm

Orientation dies : 5 h.

Weight : 6,86 g.

Edge : lisse

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire frappé sur un flan irrégulier, bien centré mais avec des petits défaut de flan. La date est parfaitement lisible

Catalogue references :

KM18/61

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : cinq fleurs de lis dans un cercle perlé.

Reverse

Reverse legend : 1790.

Reverse description : au centre.

Commentary

Le monnayage français du comptoir de Mahé qui fut frappé à Pondichéry comprend plusieurs dénominations : quart, demi et biche de Mahé en cuivre et des fanons d'argent.
The French coinage of the Mahé trading post which was struck in Pondicherry includes several denominations: quarter, half and Mahé doe in copper and silver baleen.