Early Dutch Negapatnam Pagoda

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Similar to the Dutch Negapatnam Pagoda (ca. 1662 - 1677) posted at https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=56873.
PCGS also identified this one as by Dutch from Negapatnam.
Quite rare - not perfect mint state, but the best specimen I could acquire in a long time.

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I'd like to hear what Oesho has to say about the id.

Peter

[Oesho]

PCGS has attributed this coin to the period 1747-84 (KM.22), which is not correct.
They refere to their own reference coin (PCGS# 859405) which is correctly a piece struck after 1747, the so-called Porto-Novo pagoda and showing a lazy J on the right.
The coin shown above (PCGS# 39716384) is pre c.1740 and locally struck by the Nawab governors at Porto Novo & other local mints. See also Barbara Mears: A review of the Pagoda Coins of South East India during the Nayaka and Early Colonial Period, in Felicitas, Essay in Numismatics, Epigraphy & History in Honour of Joe Cribb (Mumbai, 2011), type SG4.

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