Madras Mint – Reformation – Two Fanams 1808/12, Obverse Varieties

	A	B	C	E	F	G	H
Buckle Shape	Short Square	Short Square	Short Square	Short Square	Square	Square	Square
Spelling of Legend	Correct	Correct	Correct	DOBLE FANAM	DOUBLE FANM	DOBBLE FANAM	Correct
Diacritical marks	U	U	U+M	U	U	U	U+M
Stop in Legend	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Shading in Buckle	No	No	No	No	No	No	No

	H1	I	J	K	L	M
Buckle Shape	Square	Short Oval	Short Oval	Short Oval	Short Oval	Short Oval
Spelling of Legend	Correct	Correct	Correct	Correct	Correct	Correct
Diacritical marks	U	U+M	U+M	M	U	U
Stop in Legend	No	No	No	No	No	No
Shading in Buckle	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No

	O	P	Q	R	S	T
Buckle Shape	Long Oval	Long Oval	Long Oval	Long Oval	Long Oval	Long Oval
Spelling of Legend	Correct	Correct	Correct	Correct	Correct	FANAW
Diacritical marks	U+M	M	U	U+M+L	M+L	U
Stop in Legend	No	No	No	No	No	No
Shading in Buckle	No	No	No	No	No	No

	T1	U	V	W	X
Buckle Shape	Rounded Oval	Dots	Dots	Dots	No Buckle
Spelling of Legend	Correct	Correct	Correct	FANAMƧ (retrograde S)	Correct
Diacritical marks	U+M	U+M	U	U+M	U
Stop in Legend	No	No	Yes	No	No
Shading in Buckle	Yes	No	No	No	-

The former obverse D has been deleted since it was found to be the same as obverse B

Short Square	Square	Short Oval

Long Oval	Rounded Oval	Dots	No Buckle

DOBLE	DOBBLE

FANM	FANAW	FANAMƧ

Diacritical Marks – U	Diacritical Marks – U+M (two examples)	Diacritical Marks – M

Diacritical Marks – U+M+L	Diacritical Marks – M+L

Stop in Legend – Yes	Stop in Legend – No

Shading in Buckle – No	Shading in Buckle – Yes