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Coins of British India. Indian rupee coin (1862) Obverse: Crowned bust surrounded by inscription Victoria Queen. Reverse: Face value, country and date surrounded by wreath. Coin minted in 1862 and made of 91.7% silver. Royal title changed to Victoria Empress in 1877 (1884 coin shown here)
The Padmanabhaswamy temple treasure is a collection of valuable objects including gold thrones, crowns, coins, statues and ornaments, diamonds and other precious stones. It was discovered in some of the subterranean vaults of the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, in the Indian state of Kerala, when five of its six (or possibly eight ...
The sovereign is a British gold coin with a nominal value of one pound sterling (£1) and contains 0.2354 troy oz of pure gold. Struck since 1817, it was originally a circulating coin that was accepted in Britain and elsewhere in the world; it is now a bullion coin and is sometimes mounted in jewellery. In addition, circulation strikes and ...
This bar weighs a stunning 27.4 pounds and is worth $959,000 at the recent spot price. The kilobar: This bar is a kilogram of gold, or 32.15 troy ounces. It prices out at about $77,080 at the ...
One pound. The British one pound ( £1) coin is a denomination of sterling coinage. Its obverse bears the Latin engraving ELIZABETH II D G REG ( Dei Gratia Regina) F D ( Fidei defensor) meaning, 'Elizabeth II, by the grace of God, Queen, Defender of the Faith '. [ 1][ 2] It has featured the profile of Queen Elizabeth II since the original coin ...
These included 1/2 ₹, 1/4 ₹, 2 anna, 1 anna, 1/2 anna & 1 pice coins, and are referred to as the anna series or pre-decimal coinage. Under the anna series, one rupee was divided into 16 annas or 64 pice, with each anna equal to 4 pice. In 1957, India shifted to the decimal system, though for a short period of time, both decimal and non ...
www .indiagovtmint .in. The India Government Mint ( ISO: Bhārata Sarakāra Ṭakasāla) operated four mints in the country for the production of coins: Mumbai, Maharashtra. Kolkata, West Bengal. Hyderabad, Telangana. Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The functions of the mint were replaced by the Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India in 2006.
Pagoda (coin) French East India Company -issued "Gold Pagoda" for Southern India trade, cast in Pondicherry 1705–1780. The pagoda, also called the hoon, [1] was a unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half-gold minted by Indian dynasties as well as the British, the French and the Dutch. It was subdivided into 42 fanams.