East India Company One Mohur 22k Gold Coin 1841 Antique

Fabulous collectable one Mohur antique gold coin  issued by the iconic East India Company in the year 1841, during the early reign of Queen Victoria.

The East India Company was an English, and later British, joint stock company that was founded in 1600 trading till 1874. It was formed originally to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies and later with East Asia. At its peak, the company was the largest corporation in the world by various measures and had its own armed forces in the form of the company's three presidency armies, totalling about 260,000 soldiers, twice the size of the British Army, as well as it's on coins.

Originally chartered as the "Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East-Indies," the company rose to account for half of the world's trade during the mid-1700s and early 1800s, particularly in basic commodities including cotton, silk, indigo dye, sugar, salt, spices, saltpetre, tea, gemstones and opium.

This coin is made from 22ct yellow gold, there are no marks, but the coin has been tested to the one side which depicts Queen Victoria. The coin has no mounts but may at some point have been mounted into a ring as there are some indents into the millings, please see pictures for full details. Good crisp detailing to both faces.

Diameter 2.7 cm or 1.0 inches.

Weight 11.6 grams or 7.4 penny weight.

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