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ENGLISH INDIES SHEWPUJAN ROY INDRA private banking coinage
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525
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ENGLISH INDIES SHEWPUJAN ROY INDRA private banking coinage
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See original version (French)
Estimate
€1,000 - €1,200
Voluntary lot
Description
ENGLISH INDIES
SHEWPUJAN ROY INDRA private banking coinage
SHEWPUJAN ROY INDRA SANROY. Five-pointed star in the centre of a poly-lobed circle. Garland around the edge.
R/. STAR BRAND / FINE GOLD. In the centre face value 1 WEIGHT TOLA within a poly-lobed circle between TOUCH / 9950. Garland around edge. Smooth edge.
♦ Fr 1612
Undated gold tola (circa 1940-1950 et seq). (11,67 g / 995°/°°)
Superb.
The tola or tolah or tole. The word tola comes from the Sanskrit 'tol' meaning 'to weigh'. It is the traditional unit of mass of ancient India and South Asia standardised as 180 troy grains (11.6638038 g) or 3/8 of a troy ounce. It was the basic unit in the English weight system introduced in 1833. Shewpujan Roy Indra San Roy was a goldsmith and jeweller based in Calcutta, India, active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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