India coins
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Saturday, January 7, 2012
8. Rim and Edge
Rim: Raised part around the device on both sides, (enables blind people to distinguish between denominations)
Edge: The part between the faces, circumference, has reeding on it or plain.
Obverse: Heads side
Reverse: the tail side
Types of edges
1. 2 rupee coin
2. Security1
3. Security2
4. Plain
5. Reeded
6. 2 paisa
7. Milled? (error?)
Monday, January 2, 2012
Thursday, December 22, 2011
6. British rulers of India
British Rulers of India
KING WILLIAM IV (TILL 1837)
QUEEN VICTORIA (1840 - 1901)
The coins issued after 1840 were with the portrait of Queen Victoria.
In 1862 the first coinage under the British Crown was issued
In 1877 Queen Victoria assumed the title of ‘The Empress of India’
KING EDWARD VII (1903 - 1910)
KING GEORGE V (1911 - 1936)
KING GEORGE VI (1938 - 1947)
King George VI – with some new vaieties
Monday, September 26, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
4. pie, pice, naya paisa, paisa, naye paise, paise !!!
Confused about the `paise' of those days?!
There was the pie, one-third of a pice (paisa) and so, one-twelfth of an anna. The Hindi plural `paise' for paisa (pice) causes the confusion, pice being wrongly read as paise.
Dates | Currency system |
From 1835 | 1 Rupee = 16 annas = 64 pices (paise) = 192 pie s |
From 1 April 1957 | 1 Rupee = 100 naya paise |
From 1 June 1964 | 1 Rupee = 100 paise |
Note the spellings in the following
1 pie = 1/12 Anna (One Twelfth Anna)
3 Pie(s) = 1 paisa / pice (One Quarter Anna)
2 Half pice(s) or 2 Dhelas = 1 Pice ( one quarter Anna)
12 Pie(s) = 1Anna
4 Pice(s) = 1Anna
16 Annas = 1 Rupee
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
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