The Uniform Coinage of India, British Imperial Period, Victoria, silver Rupees (2), both 1862 [1863-4], type C/II [Prid. B/II, 1/0], Bombay, crowned and robed bust left, victoria queen, 4.25 panels in jabot, v on bodice at left, embroidery in low relief, elongated pearls in crown with single line curves, revs. one rupee above india and date, all within scroll-like wreath of Indian flora, single pellet above n of one, top flower with points up, plain cone below top flower, bud cone above one, no cone by last e of rupee, edges grained, 11.71g/12h, 11.61g/12h (Prid. 69 [Sale, lot 111]; SW 4.60; KM. 473.1) [2]. First about extremely fine, second better and with mint bloom £90-£120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Puddester Collection.

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Although the Times of India had published an article on the subject as early as 1893, the purpose of the dots or pellets found on some 1862-dated rupees was not generally known to numismatists in the western world until Henry Garside explained the dating sequence (SNC February 1914, cols. 95-6). Erich Wodak built on this research (South Australian Numismatic Journal, April 1957), but extensive work undertaken over several years by George Falcke and Robert Clarke, originally published in the August and September 1970 issues of Coins magazine and reprinted as India’s 1862 Rupees (Iola, 1971), remains the defining study