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PUD NO_804-1 AE |
| Subject | : | Settlement of British at Bombay - EIC Defeats French |
| Size | : | 41 mm |
| Metal | : | Copper |
| Year | : | 1804 |
| Description | : | obv. Reclining Neptune leaning against a globe and holding a Union Jack, around upper border : SETTLEMENT OF THE BRITISH AT BOMBAY. In exergue : MDCLXII (1662). Signed : DROZ F. MUDIE D., rev. Seated Neptune with trident in right hand and symbol of victory in left, around border : THE FRENCH FLEET REPULSED BY THE E.I. COMPAYS XV. FEB. MDCCCIV (15th Feb. 1804). Signed : MILL F. MUDIE D.
Part of J. Mudie’s Grand Series of Forty Medals Commemorating British Victories, begun in 1814 and completed in 1820. Obverse commemorates the settlement of the British at Bombay in 1662. Although the first emissary of the Honourable East India Company, William Hawkins, had gone to the court of Jehangir in 1608 and trade was beginning to flourish, it was not until Bombay was ceded to England in 1662, as part of the dowry of Catherine of Braganza, that the Company was firmly established. |
