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1 Pice Copperoon
| Issuer | East India Company |
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| Year | 1672 |
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| Value | 1 Pice = 1/4 Anna = 1⁄64 Rupee |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Bombay Mint |
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The term "Copperoon" derives from the Portuguese "cobre" (copper), a linguistic remnant of Portuguese commercial dominance in Indian Ocean trade before the English displaced them along the Coromandel Coast. This particular issue was struck for the Madras Presidency, where the East India Company operated under a series of increasingly assertive charters that gave it de facto minting rights — a privilege that sat uneasily with the Mughal administration and was exercised with deliberate irregularity to avoid direct confrontation.
KM#133 is known to present with considerable die rust from the primitive Madras facility.