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107, Lot: 241. Estimate $300.
Sold for $395. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRITISH INDIA. East India Company. Madras Presidency. 1639-1835. AR Double Rupee (39mm, 44.23 gm). Arkat (Madras) mint. Dated AH 1172; RY 2; Struck 1807. Legend with AH date/ Legend with mint and RY date. Pridmore 246; KM C#485. VF, toned. Very rare. Overstruck on an 8 Reales of Charles III.

Ex Virgil M. Brand Collection (Spink 50, 6-7 March 1986), lot 232; J.B. Caldecott Collection (Sotheby, 6 November 1912), lot 125 (part of).

According to Pridmore, the total mintage, which includes the normal RY 6 and this variety, is 165,172 pieces.