French India duplicate? [solved]

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apuking Catalogue referee
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Posted: 6 Eyl 2025, 00:09 #
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Hello am I missing something or is the sond sheet below a duplicate of the first?

N#21891

 

km reference number also looks not normal

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces451799.html

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Posted: 6 Eyl 2025, 00:35 #
Edited: 6 Eyl 2025, 00:37
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KM# 67 under Mahe:

KM# 18 under Pondichéry:

N#113463

 

No KM# 67 under Pondichéry.

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Posted: 6 Eyl 2025, 08:05 #
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since when do we have a split of French India and the single mints of it becoming their own issuers?

that is normally not how we define issuers

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tdziemia Numista team
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Posted: 31 Ekim 2025, 14:08 #
Edited: 31 Ekim 2025, 14:17
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If I understand correctly, this coin was struck at the Pondicherry mint, for use in Mahe (https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=14860727 ; https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=12655977 )  which explains the confusion.

 

So, I think we keep the first (correct and earlier) listing with modification to the title, and delete the second.  

 

The question of whether to have one issuer with a handful of mints, or a handful of sub-issuers is perhaps a gray area.  If I understand correctly, these mints were in geographically isolated (or at least separated) enclaves, so I am guessing the coins did not circulate widely?  

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