Banknotes 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

2 Rupees 8 Annas (2.5 Rupees)
ND (1918)

Standard banknote
132 × 76 mm
P# 2, N# 206192
5 Rupees
ND (1917-1930)

Standard banknote

P# 4, N# 382775
10 Rupees (1st Issue; Type 1)
ND (1917-1930)

Standard banknote
159 × 100 mm
P# 5, N# 215368
10 Rupees (1st Issue; Type 2)
ND (1917-1930)

Standard banknote
152 × 101 mm
P# 6, N# 215365
10 Rupees (2nd Issue)
ND (1926)

Standard banknote
159 × 101 mm
P# 7, N# 202576
1000 Rupees
ND (1928)

Standard banknote

P# 12, N# 332021
10 000 Rupees
ND (1928)

Standard banknote

P# 13, N# 297797
Available for swap 1 Rupee
1935

Standard banknote
90 × 50 mm
P# 14, N# 204105
5 Rupees (2nd Issue)
1928-1935

Standard banknote
126 × 72 mm
P# 15, N# 215374
10 Rupees - George V
ND (1933)

Standard banknote
150 × 80 mm
P# 16, N# 204109
Available for swap 2 Rupees
ND (1937-1949)

Standard banknote
100 × 60 mm
P# 17, N# 203975
5 Rupees
ND (1937-1943)

Standard banknote
110 × 70 mm
P# 18, N# 203961
Available for swap 10 Rupees
ND (1937)

Standard banknote
140 × 80 mm
P# 19, N# 204116
100 Rupees
ND (1937-1943)

170 × 110 mm
P# 20, N# 204123
1000 Rupees
ND (1937)

Standard banknote

P# 21, N# 332022
10 000 Rupees
ND (1938)

Standard banknote

P# 22, N# 278223
5 Rupees
ND (1943)

Standard banknote
110 × 70 mm
P# 23, N# 203962
Available for swap 10 Rupees
ND (1943)

Standard banknote
140 × 80 mm
P# 24, N# 203963
Available for swap 1 Rupee - George VI
ND (1944)

Standard banknote
110 × 70 mm
P# 25, N# 203978
10 Rupees (3rd Issue)
1910-1920

Standard banknote
210 × 129 mm
P# A10, N# 212689
1000 Rupees (Bombay)
1915 (1909-1927)

Standard banknote

P# A19, N# 202874

East India Company rupee (1770-1862)

16 Annas = 1 Rupee

Unspecified currency

20 Sicca Rupees (Calcutta Bank)
ND (1824-1829)

Standard banknote

P# S157, N# 219975
5 Company Rupees (Union Bank, Calcutta)
1847

Standard banknote

P# S195, N# 219923
10 Company Rupees (Union Bank, Calcutta)
1847

Standard banknote

P# S196, N# 219927
20 Company Rupees (Union Bank, Calcutta)
1847

Standard banknote

P# S197, N# 219933
250 Company Rupees (Union Bank, Calcutta)
1847

Standard banknote

P# S198, N# 219936

Rupee (1862-1947)

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

1 Rupee - Cawnpore issue
1917

Standard banknote

N# 252399

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