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India & Indian States Modern Dime Size Silver Coins of the World INDIA & NATIVE STATES ====================================================================== ====================================================================== 1840 - 3 RUPEE - OBVERSE 1840 - 3 RUPEE - REVERSE ====================================================================== ====================================================================== INDIA, British East India Company FOOTNOTE: The 3 rupee coinage listings start with the 1835 BOMBAY MINT issue of the British East India Company from Calcutta and continue ====================================================================== until independence in 1947. Arranged by the Royal branch mints of 3 RUPEE 19.5 MM .916 FINE 2.92 GRAMS Bombay and Calcutta, and the Lahore mint built during World War II, ====================================================================== followed by a few native Indian states which issued silver size coinage within the parameters of this work. This section is limited 1840 10,617,480 frozen date to British India, Baroda, Kutch, Mewar Udaipur, Navanager, and Portuguese India from the authors collection.. ¿OV: Crowned bust of Victoria, facing left, VICTORIA QUEEN, above around. FOOTNOTE: Bombay - When the Portuguese, sailing up the Malabar coast, entered the little archipelago near its northern extremity, ¿RV: 3 / RUPEE / (Persian inscription = CHAHAR they fitly named their anchorage “Bom Bahia” or “Good Bay”, for AANA = FOUR ANNAS) within laurel wreath tied with ribbon few better harbors exist. Later when they deeded the island to the below, • (rosette) EAST INDIA COMPANY • (rosette), around / English Monarch as part of the Dower of their Princess, little did 1840. they dream that its paltry area of twenty-two square miles would eventually hold the finest city in the East, with a population of over EDGE: Reeded eight hundred thousand souls. India - C.H.Forbes-Lindsay, Phila., 1903. MINT: (no mintmark) = Royal Mint branch mints of, BOMBAY and CALCUTTA FOOTNOTE: The European Period of Indian history lasted from 1757 to 1947 A.D. The Venetians, the Genoese, the Portuguese ENGRAVER: Major J.T.Smith, Mintmaster, Madras and the Dutch had, by turns, traded with India. In 1602 the English mint appeared on the scene and for a long time the East India Company had a powerful hold upon the politics and commerce of India. DESIGNER: William Wyon, Chief Engraver, Royal Although founded for commerce, the Company was resolved to Mint, London permanently establish English dominion in India. So well did the plan succeed that, by 1818, the British had become masters of TYPE: I - Continuous legend most of India except the Punjab and Sind. After the Sepoy mutiny in 1857-58, the British Viceroys consolidated the dominion during a REFERENCE: Y-2, KM-453.1 period of peace and progress. A Missionary Atlas, Harrisburg, Pa.,1950. FOOTNOTE: This type was struck with frozen date of1840 be- tween 1842-1851 at both the Royal Mint branch mints of Bombay FOOTNOTE: In 1852 with gold tending to depreciate, because of and Calcutta. increased production, the government demonetized gold, leaving silver the sole legal tender of India. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SMALL SILVER COINS - INDIA - PAGE 282 ====================================================================== INDIA, British Administration of BOMBAY MINT ====================================================================== 3 RUPEE 19.8 MM .916 FINE 2.92 GRAMS ====================================================================== 1862 11,389,760 frozen date ¿OV: Crowned bust of Victoria, facing left, VICTORIA, left QUEEN, right. ¿RV: 3 / RUPEE / INDIA / - / 1862 within flower design. EDGE: Reeded MINT: (no mintmark) 19.8MM = Royal Mint branch mint BOMBAY TYPE: I - frozen date struck 1862-1873 REFERENCE: Y-10, KM-470 FOOTNOTE: Starting with the 1874 issue, the three British India mints struck the 3 Rupee on different size flans; 19.2 MM = Calcutta, 19.8 MM = Bombay and 20.0 MM = Madras The Madras issues are 1840 - 3 RUPEE - OBVERSE not included in this catalog. ====================================================================== FOOTNOTE: The official language of India during the period of INDIA, British East India Company Mughal rule was Persian and it continued to enjoy the official BOMBAY MINT status under the East India Company administration next to English. ====================================================================== The Persian inscription on the 3 rupee (English denomination) 3 RUPEE 19.5MM .916 FINE 2.92 GRAMS was chahar aana for four-annas, which the people called char ====================================================================== anna or chavanni. One rupee was equal to 16 annas, twelve pies or four pice make one anna, with three pies equal to one pice. 1840 8,519,480 frozen date 1849 u/m proof only FOOTNOTE: The price of silver began to fall in 1873 and silver reached its low point in 1876. To the mass of the people in India the ¿OV: Crowned bust of Victoria, facing left, fall in exchange did not make very much difference. Internal prices VICTORIA, left QUEEN, right / W.W. on truncation. did not rise greatly, and imported goods, the price of which did rise, were not used to any great extent by the peasants. This affected ¿RV: 3 / RUPEE / (Persian inscription = CHAHAR only the wealthier classes and the resident Englishman in govern- AANA = FOUR ANNAS) within laurel wreath tied with ribbon ment service or in trade who received his salary in rupees and • • below, (rosette) EAST INDIA COMPANY (rossette), around / desired to send part of it to England for his family. Silver Money, DATE 1939. EDGE: Reeded ====================================================================== INDIA, British Administration of MINT: (no mintmark) = Royal Mint branch mints of, BOMBAY MINT BOMBAY and CALCUTTA ====================================================================== 3 RUPEE 19.8MM .916 FINE 2.92 GRAMS DESIGNER: W.W. = William Wyon, Chief Engraver, ====================================================================== Royal Mint 1874 1,612,000 TYPE: II - Divided legend ¿OV: Crowned bust of Victoria, facing left, REFERENCE: Y-2A, KM-454.3 VICTORIA, left QUEEN, right. FOOTNOTE: Divided legend issues were struck at both mints; ¿RV: 3 / RUPEE / INDIA / - / 1874 / • (dot mintmark) Bombay - 8,519,480 and Calcutta - 32,012,400 with no mintmark, within flower design. with frozen date between 1851-1862. EDGE: Reeded FOOTNOTE: The 1849 proof was struck with W.W. incise and W.W. raised only for William Wyon the designer. The S incised on MINT: • (dot) = Royal Mint branch mint BOMBAY truncation was struck at the Madras mint, no initial for the Calcutta and Bombay mints. TYPE: II - Dot mintmark FOOTNOTE: Rupee is derived from the Sanskrit word “rupa” which REFERENCE: Y-10, KM-470 means cattle. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SMALL SILVER COINS - INDIA - PAGE 283 1875 - 3 RUPEE - OBVERSE 1875 - 3 RUPEE - REVERSE ====================================================================== ====================================================================== INDIA, British Administration of BOMBAY MINT FOOTNOTE: INDIA, formerly the name Hindustan was frequently ====================================================================== used instead of India, as reference to the land of the Hindus, 3 RUPEE 19.8 MM .916 FINE 2.92 GRAMS located in the north central part of India. It is now known officially ====================================================================== as the Empire of India. 1875 5,238,840 FOOTNOTE: On January 1, 1877 Queen Victoria of Great Britain 1876 1,427,440 was proclaimed Empress of India by Act of Parliament. A Dunbar held at Delhi, India proclaimed the Queen of England, Empress of ¿OV: Crowned bust of Victoria, facing left, India. VICTORIA, left QUEEN, right. ====================================================================== ¿RV: 3 / RUPEE / INDIA / - / DATE within flower INDIA, BRITISH EMPIRE of design. BOMBAY MINT ====================================================================== EDGE: Reeded 3 RUPEE 19.1-19.7 MM .916 FINE 2.92 GRAM ====================================================================== MINT: (no mintmark), 19.8MM = Royal Mint branch mint BOMBAY 1877 883,760 1879 u/m proof only TYPE: II - No mintmark 1881 1,444,360 1882 2,775,160 REFERENCE: Y-10, KM-470 1883 183,560 ¿OV: Crowned bust of Victoria, facing left, VICTORIA, left EMPRESS, right. ¿RV: 3 / RUPEE / INDIA / DATE / • (dot mintmark) within flower design. EDGE: Reeded MINT: • (dot mintmark below open lotus) = Royal Mint branch mint BOMBAY TYPE: I - Dot mintmark REFERENCE: Y-21, KM-490 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SMALL SILVER COINS - INDIA - PAGE 284 1887 B - 3 RUPEE - OBVERSE 1887 B - 3 RUPEE - REVERSE ====================================================================== ====================================================================== INDIA, BRITISH EMPIRE of BOMBAY MINT ====================================================================== 3 RUPEE 19.1-19.7 MM .916 FINE 2.92 GRAMS ====================================================================== 1884 1,709,160 1885 1,117,880 1886 1,683,600 1887 4,421,760 1888 2,227,720 B relief mintmark for Bombay ¿OV: Crowned bust of Victoria, facing left, VICTORIA, left EMPRESS, right. ¿RV: (B relief mintmark at top)/ 1/4 / RUPEE / INDIA / DATE / within flower design. EDGE: Reeded MINT: B relief = Royal Mint branch mint BOMBAY TYPE: II - B relief mintmark REFERENCE: Y-21, KM-490 FOOTNOTE: 3 RUPEE A DAY - The wheat question is a growing one in British India,
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