In 2022 I bought a Gold Mohur from the EIC, only 100 coins were minted in 24k gold in that year, they minted one again in 2023 and 2024, same deal only 100 coins each year and now I just heard they went belly up. The East India Company sold other items besides gold and silver coins such as tea, coffee, crackers and other expensive items. Anyways just sharing for the British collectors here and if you ever bought any coins from the EIC, feel free to post a pic. I'll leave a link by CoinWeek and pics of my Gold Mohur coin, I bought it cause I like the reverse, oh and the Queen, like I said, I like the lion! https://coinweek.com/the-east-india-company-coins/
Oh, neat. Unusual to see Lizzy the Second on an EIC coin instead of Victoria. It's a real beauty, too. COINgratulations.
Not a fair comparison. Victoria was portrayed as a young lady when she appeared on the EIC coins. By contrast, Elizabeth II was 96 years old when that coin in the OP was struck, and died later that same year. So if you take that into account, she looks just fine there.
"Mum" was so dignified and admired it's hard to go wrong with any coin she's on, at any age. Even Johnny Rotton spoke nice of her when she died. And the Sex Pistols were the ones that followed her yacht up the Thames blasting God Save the Queen for several hours.
Dignified and admired, indeed. Made her mark on history, she did. Just like Victoria. The Brits seem to have had good luck with queens. Mostly.
It is remarkable isn't it? The combined reigns of Elizabeth I, Victoria, and Elizabeth II account for close to 20% of the entire history of the British monarchy. One of my EIC coins, and speaking of portraits - one of my favorites for Victoria: BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY, 1600-1874 AR Rupee (30.5mm, 11.66g, 1h) Dated 1840. Bombay or Calcutta mint Obverse: VICTORIA QUEEN, bust of young Queen Victoria left, wearing fillet; W.W. along neck truncation Reverse: EAST INDIA COMPANY around wreath containing ONE RUPEE in two lines, Arabic translation below; 1840 along bottom References: Numista 24095 Mintage: 398,554,000 In PCGS encapsulation, graded MS62 Attractively toned. The British East India Company was founded in 1600 and over time grew to become the largest and most powerful corporation in the world, empowered to acquire territories, mint its own coinage, conduct diplomacy, and wage war. The East India Company maintained its own standing army, which at one point numbered more than a quarter million troops – twice the size of the regular British Army. After the Battle of Plassey in 1757 the EIC extended its control over much of the Indian subcontinent as well as Hong Kong, which it maintained until the British Government assumed direct rule over India following the Indian Mutiny of 1857. In the following years, the East India Company rapidly declined, and the company that once accounted for half of the world’s trade was finally dissolved in 1874. The London Times offered this obituary of the EIC: “It accomplished a work such as in the whole history of the human race no other trading Company ever attempted, and such as none, surely, is likely to attempt in the years to come.”
