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

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 4 Annas - George V
1919-1921

Standard circulation coin
Copper-nickel • 6.8 g • ⌀ 24 mm
KM# 519, N# 15672
Available for swap 1⁄12 Anna - George VI
1938-1939

Standard circulation coin
Bronze • 1.62 g • ⌀ 17.5 mm
KM# 526, N# 18706
Available for swap ¼ Rupee - George VI
1938-1939

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.917) • 2.92 g • ⌀ 19 mm
KM# 544, N# 20326
Available for swap ½ Rupee - George VI
1938-1939

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.917) • 5.83 g • ⌀ 24 mm
KM# 549, N# 25904
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 ½ Pice - George VI
1938-1940

Standard circulation coin
Bronze • 2.4 g • ⌀ 21.1 mm
KM# 528, N# 7811
Available for swap ¼ Anna - George VI
1938-1940

Standard circulation coin
Bronze • 4.85 g • ⌀ 25.3 mm
KM# 530, N# 1618
Available for swap 1 Anna - George VI
1938-1940

Standard circulation coin
Copper-nickel • 3.7 g • ⌀ 20 mm
KM# 536, N# 8849
Available for swap 1⁄12 Anna - George VI
1938-1942

Standard circulation coin
Bronze • 1.62 g • ⌀ 17.5 mm
KM# 527, N# 3708
½ Rupee - George VI
1939

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.917) • 5.83 g • ⌀ 23.5 mm
KM# 550, N# 23550
Available for swap 2 Annas - George VI
1939-1940

Standard circulation coin
Copper-nickel • 5.84 g • 25 mm
KM# 540, N# 25398
Available for swap 2 Annas - George VI
1939-1941

Standard circulation coin
Copper-nickel • 5.84 g • 25 mm
KM# 541, N# 1616
Available for swap 1 Rupee - George VI
1939-1943

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.500) • 11.66 g • ⌀ 30.5 mm
KM# 556, N# 20327
½ Anna - George VI
1940

Non-circulating coin
Copper-nickel • 2.87 g • 19.7 mm
KM# 534, N# 315652
½ Anna - George VI (Pattern)
1940

Pattern
Gold • 5.85 g • 20 mm
KM# 534a, N# 315653
1 Anna - George VI (Pattern)
1940

Pattern
Gold • 7.79 g • ⌀ 21 mm
N# 315651
2 Annas - George VI (Pattern)
1940

Pattern
Gold • 11.67 g • 26 mm
N# 315650
Available for swap ¼ Rupee - George VI
1940

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.500) • 2.92 g • ⌀ 20 mm
KM# 544a, N# 53114
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 ½ Rupee - George VI
1940

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.500) • 5.83 g • ⌀ 24 mm
KM# 550a, N# 11109
Available for swap 1 Anna - George VI (2nd portrait, large crown, low relief)
1940-1941

Standard circulation coin
Copper-nickel • 3.9 g • ⌀ 20 mm
KM# 537, N# 1611
Available for swap ¼ Anna - George VI
1940-1942

Standard circulation coin
Bronze • 4.87 g • ⌀ 25.33 mm
KM# 531, N# 18116
Available for swap ½ Rupee - George VI
1941-1942

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.500) • 5.830 g • ⌀ 24.1 mm
KM# 551, N# 22927
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 ¼ Rupee - George VI
1942-1943

Standard circulation coin
Silver (.500) • 2.92 g • ⌀ 19.3 mm
KM# 546, N# 22399
Available for swap 2 Annas - George VI
1942-1944

Standard circulation coin
Nickel brass • 5.74 g • 25.3 mm
KM# 541a, N# 5554
Available for swap ½ Anna - George VI
1942-1945

Standard circulation coin
Nickel brass • 2.92 g • 19.8 mm
KM# 534b, N# 1612
Available for swap 1 Anna - George VI (2nd portrait, large crown, low relief)
1942-1945

Standard circulation coin
Nickel brass • 3.89 g • ⌀ 20.5 mm
KM# 537a, N# 1617
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 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 Pice - George VI
1943

Standard circulation coin
Bronze • 2 g • ⌀ 21.32 mm
KM# 532, N# 21213
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 1 Pice - George VI
1943-1947

Standard circulation coin
Bronze • 2 g • ⌀ 21.32 mm
KM# 533, N# 1613
Available for swap 1 Anna - George VI (2nd portrait, small crown, low relief)
1945

Standard circulation coin
Nickel brass • 3.8 g • ⌀ 21 mm
KM# 539, N# 10784
Available for swap 2 Annas - George VI
1945

Standard circulation coin
Nickel brass • 5.84 g • 25.30 mm
KM# 543, N# 5556
Available for swap ½ Anna - George VI
1946-1947

Standard circulation coin
Copper-nickel • 2.87 g • 19.7 mm
KM# 535, N# 10783
Available for swap 1 Anna - George VI (2nd portrait, small crown, low relief)
1946-1947

Standard circulation coin
Copper-nickel • 3.87 g • ⌀ 21.1 mm
KM# 538, N# 15278
Available for swap 2 Annas - George VI
1946-1947

Standard circulation coin
Copper-nickel • 5.84 g • 25 mm
KM# 542, N# 7305
Available for swap ¼ Rupee - George VI
1946-1947

Standard circulation coin
Nickel • 2.9 g • ⌀ 19 mm
KM# 548, Schön# 39, N# 6555
Available for swap ½ Rupee - George VI
1946-1947

Standard circulation coin
Nickel • 5.83 g • ⌀ 24 mm
KM# 553, N# 8239
Available for swap 1 Rupee - George VI
1947

Standard circulation coin
Nickel • 11.8 g • ⌀ 28 mm
KM# 559, N# 12426

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