A gold fanam, or trading coin, minted by the Dutch at Tuticorin, 1700's

Source: http://www.vcoins.com/ancient/ancientcoinscanada/store/viewitem.asp?idProduct=2095
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"Gold fanam, Dutch India (ca.1700-1784), Tuticorn mint. Degenrated Kali / crude Nagari inscriptions. Tuticorn mint. Superb condition, scarce, much scarcer than the common Cochin fanam. 8mm, 0.5 grams."

Tuticorin, in a Dutch view from 1752

Source: ebay, Sept. 2005

"BALDAEUS, Philip.   Tutecoryn - India. London: Lintot & Osborn, 1752. Copper Engraving. ca. 28 x 36cm(11x 14 in.). This is an original map from the 1752 London edition of 'A True and Exact Description of the most Celebrated East-India Coasts of Malabar and Coromandel; as also of the Isle of Ceylon' by Philip Baldaeus."