Some copper coins issued by the english east india company and other european powers in southern india.
London.
Harrison and Son, 1909.
First edition.
Quarto.
6pp. With a photographic plate depicting numerous coins issued by the British, Dutch, Danes, and French in Southern India. Contemporary half-calf, brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. With original publisher's upper wrapper bound in. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Ink-stamp of the Birmingham Assay Office to recto of front blank fly-leaf.
The first edition, reprinted from the British Numismatic Journal (Vol. V) of a succinct article on select copper coins issued by the English East India Company in the Madras Presidency, and further examples issued by the Dutch, Danes, and French in Southern India.
The Birmingham Assay Office, one of the four assay offices in the United Kingdom, was founded in 1773 and to this day remains responsible for testing the purity of precious metals and issuing hallmarks of certification.
OCLC and COPAC together record copies of an edition paginated 341- 346 and without imprint at just three locations (BL, Cambridge, and Peabody); this offprint edition is apparently unrecorded.
£ 250.00
Antiquates Ref: 21752
The Birmingham Assay Office, one of the four assay offices in the United Kingdom, was founded in 1773 and to this day remains responsible for testing the purity of precious metals and issuing hallmarks of certification.
OCLC and COPAC together record copies of an edition paginated 341- 346 and without imprint at just three locations (BL, Cambridge, and Peabody); this offprint edition is apparently unrecorded.
