Work on the coin actually began before Queen Elizabeth’s death on Sept. 8, 2022, according to Fortune. On the East India Company website, CEO Sanjiv Mehta wrote that Queen Elizabeth II “was an ...

This coin has been certified, authenticated and encapsulated by the Numismatic Guaranty Company (NGC) as having been on the Dutch East India Company ship Vliegenthart when it sank nearly 300 years ...

That meant within decades the East India Company was becoming a sovereign entity in its own right.: had the power to raise revenue, to make war and peace, to mint its own coins, to administer justice.