Coins from British India

The British Raj was the rule by the British Crown in the Indian subcontinent from 1858 to 1947. The rule is also called Crown rule or direct rule in India. The region under British control was commonly called British India or simply India in contemporaneous usage, and included are as directly administered by the United Kingdom, which were collectively called British India, and those ruled by indigenous rulers, but under British tutelage or paramountcy, and called the princely states. The whole was also informally called the Indian Empire (which consists of modern day India, Bangladesh and Pakistan). As India, it was a founding member of the League of Nations and a founding member of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945. This system of governance was instituted on 28 June 1858, when, after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the rule of the British East India Company was transferred to the Crown in the person of Queen Victoria (who, in 1876, was proclaimed Empress of India). It lasted until 1947, when it was partitioned into two sovereign dominion states: the Dominion of India (later the Present-day Republic of India) and the Dominion of Pakistan. Their coinage was divided in two separate entities – local coinage in each area and british rupees and annas. The last being minted under the authority of the Honourable British East India Company and after Queen Victoria took rule.

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Rupee (1862-1947)

3 Pies = 1 Pice • 4 Pices = 1 Anna • 16 Annas = 1 Rupee​ • 1 Mohur = 15 Rupees

Available for swap ¼ Rupee - George VI
1940

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.500) • 2.92 g • ⌀ 19 mm
KM# 545, N# 20325
Available for swap ¼ Rupee - George VI
1942-1943

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.500) • 2.92 g • ⌀ 19.3 mm
KM# 546, N# 22399
Available for swap ¼ Rupee - George VI
1943-1945

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.500) • 2.9 g • ⌀ 19 mm
KM# 547, N# 4854
Available for swap ¼ Rupee - George VI
1946-1947

Standard circulation coin
Nickel • 2.9 g • ⌀ 19 mm
KM# 548, Schön# 39, N# 6555
½ Rupee - Victoria (Off Metal Strike)
1862

Non-circulating coin
Gold • 5.85 g • ⌀ 24.5 mm
KM# 472a, Pr# 257, SW# 4.121, N# 88126
Available for swap ½ Rupee - Victoria
1862-1876

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.917) • 5.83 g • ⌀ 24 mm
KM# 472, N# 17813
Available for swap ½ Rupee - Victoria
1877-1899

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.917) • 5.83 g • ⌀ 24 mm
KM# 491, N# 15711
½ Rupee - Victoria (Pattern)
1891-1899

Pattern
Gold • 11.78 g • ⌀ 25 mm
KM# 491c, N# 315646
Available for swap ½ Rupee - Edward VII
1905-1910

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.917) • 5.83 g • ⌀ 24 mm
KM# 507, N# 25488
Available for swap ½ Rupee - George V
1911

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.917) • 5.83 g • ⌀ 24 mm
KM# 521, N# 35743
Available for swap ½ Rupee - George V
1912-1936

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.917) • 5.83 g • ⌀ 24 mm
KM# 522, N# 5658
8 Annas - George V (Pattern)
1919

Pattern
Gold • 14.69 g • ⌀ 26 mm
N# 315649
Available for swap 8 Annas - George V
1919-1920

Standard circulation coin
Copper-nickel • 7.77 g • ⌀ 26 mm
KM# 520, N# 17177
Available for swap ½ Rupee - George VI
1938-1939

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.917) • 5.83 g • ⌀ 24 mm
KM# 549, N# 25904
½ Rupee - George VI
1939

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.917) • 5.83 g • ⌀ 23.5 mm
KM# 550, N# 23550
Available for swap ½ Rupee - George VI
1940

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.500) • 5.83 g • ⌀ 24 mm
KM# 550a, N# 11109
Available for swap ½ Rupee - George VI
1941-1942

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.500) • 5.830 g • ⌀ 24.1 mm
KM# 551, N# 22927
Available for swap ½ Rupee - George VI
1942-1945

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.500) • 5.84 g • ⌀ 24.1 mm
KM# 552, N# 10613
Available for swap ½ Rupee - George VI
1946-1947

Standard circulation coin
Nickel • 5.83 g • ⌀ 24 mm
KM# 553, N# 8239
1 Rupee - Victoria (Off Metal Strike)
1862

Non-circulating coin
Gold • 11.66 g • ⌀ 30.78 mm
KM# 473.1a, Pr# 68, SW# 4.53, N# 88128
Available for swap 1 Rupee - Victoria
1862-1876

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.917) • 11.66 g • ⌀ 30.78 mm
KM# 473, N# 3345
Available for swap 1 Rupee - Victoria
1877-1901

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.917) • 11.66 g • ⌀ 30.79 mm
KM# 492, N# 3719
Available for swap 1 Rupee - Edward VII
1903-1910

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.917) • 11.66 g • ⌀ 30.6 mm
KM# 508, N# 3722
1 Rupee - Edward VII (Pattern)
1910

Pattern
Silver
SW# 7.12, Pr# 1049, N# 314048
1 Rupee - Edward VII (Pattern)
1910

Pattern
Gold
SW# 7.13, Pr# 1050, N# 314047
Available for swap 1 Rupee - George V
1911

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.917) • 11.66 g • ⌀ 30.5 mm
KM# 523, N# 20948
1 Rupee - George V (Pattern)
1911

Pattern
Gold • 19.9 g • ⌀ 31 mm
N# 315647
Available for swap 1 Rupee - George V
1912-1936

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.917) • 11.66 g • ⌀ 30.5 mm
KM# 524, N# 4851
Available for swap 1 Rupee - George VI
1938-1939

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.917) • 11.66 g • ⌀ 30.5 mm
KM# 555, N# 25400
Available for swap 1 Rupee - George VI
1939-1943

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.500) • 11.66 g • ⌀ 30.5 mm
KM# 556, N# 20327
1 Rupee - George VI 1942 (Embossed PGAH 1943)
ND (1942)

Standard circulation coin
Silver • 11.66 g • ⌀ 30.5 mm
N# 320033
Available for swap 1 Rupee - George VI
1942-1945

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.500) • 11.66 g • ⌀ 30.5 mm
KM# 557, N# 2470
Available for swap 1 Rupee - George VI
1947

Standard circulation coin
Nickel • 11.8 g • ⌀ 28 mm
KM# 559, N# 12426
5 Rupees - Victoria
1870

Standard circulation coin
Gold (.917) • 3.887 g • ⌀ 20 mm
KM# 476, N# 25927
5 Rupees - Victoria
1870-1875

Standard circulation coin
Gold (.917) • 3.887 g • ⌀ 19 mm
KM# 474, N# 25926
5 Rupees - Victoria
1879

Standard circulation coin
Gold (.917) • 3.887 g • ⌀ 20 mm
KM# 493, N# 25931
10 Rupees - Victoria
1870-1875

Non-circulating coin
Gold (.917) • 7.774 g • ⌀ 22 mm
KM# 477, N# 25928
10 Rupees - Victoria
1878-1879

Non-circulating coin
Gold (.917) • 7.774 g • ⌀ 22 mm
KM# 495, N# 15717
1 Mohur - Victoria
1862-1875

Standard circulation coin
Gold (.917) • 11.66 g • ⌀ 26 mm
KM# 480, Fr# 1598, N# 25929
1 Mohur - Victoria
1870

Non-circulating coin
Gold (.917) • 11.66 g • ⌀ 26 mm
KM# 481, N# 25930
1 Mohur - Victoria
1877-1891

Standard circulation coin
Gold (.917) • 11.66 g • ⌀ 26 mm
KM# 496, Pr# 14, Pr# 16, Fr# 1604, SW# 6, N# 25932
15 Rupees - George V
1918

Standard circulation coin
Gold (.917) • 7.98 g • ⌀ 22.05 mm
KM# 525, SW# 8.1, Pr# 25, N# 15712

Unspecified currency

1 Rupee - Alamgir II (Ajmer Mint)
1754

Standard circulation coin
Silver • 11.26 g • ⌀ 21.91 mm
KM# 237, N# 222281

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