BRITISH INDIA SILVER COINS

1/4 Rupee - George VI - India - British 1940

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British India George VI 1943 1/4 Rupee Silver Coin

Year: 1943. Weight: 2.82g. Mint: lucknow Mintage: 90,994,571.

Sans Serif style lettering with star like lotus (dot in lotus is surrounded by irregular circle). Large rim decoration. Small second head. Reeded edge. This coin also exists in Serif lettering with and without star like lotus.

                                    British India George VI 1945 1/4 Rupee Silver Coin

Year: 1945. Weight: 2.82g. Mint: Mumbai (Bombay). Mintage: 181,648,000 (including large 5 in date).

Note: This coin has dot below the star like lotus. San Serif style lettering. Large rim decoration. Small second head. Security edge.

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              Country                   India- British

    Year                         1840

                   Value                       ¼ Rupee {1/4}

               Metal                      Silver (.917)

     Weight                    2.92 g

                                Engraver                 William Wyon (obverse)

      Shape                     Round

                   Orientation             Medal alignment

Demonetized          Yes

George king emperor half rupee india 1940

Year: 1940. Weight: 2.85g. Mint: Mumbai (Bombay). Mintage: 28,946,956.

Serif style lettering with not star like lotus (dot in lotus is surrounded by a regular circle). Small rim decoration. Large second head. Reeded edge

Note: Just for reference, Calcutta mintage: 68,674,901. 

Quarter Rupee. Weight: 2.91g. Metal: 0.500 Silver. Diameter: 19.5 mm. Edge: Reeded. Alignment: Medal. Mint: Kolkata (Calcutta). Obverse: The legend within a single line circle: 1/4 RUPEE INDIA with date. Surrounded by a saracenic (designating, characterizing, or relating to Muslim art or architecture) scroll composed of conventional representations of a rose, thistle and shamrock. At the top and bottom are different representations of the Indian lotus flower. San Serif style lettering with star like lotus. All this is within another plain circle that is in turn within a raised, decorative-toothed border. Large rim decoration. Reverse: Crowned head of the King facing left surrounded by the legend: GEORGE VI KING EMPEROR. All within a raised, decorative-toothed border. Small second head, low relief with short trefoils in crown. Mintage Years: Kolkata (Calcutta): 1942-1943.

Note: Kolkata (Calcutta) Mint issues have no mint mark.

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George king emperor one rupee india 1944

 Year: 1944. Weight: 11.50g. Mint: Mumbai (Bombay). Mintage: 146,206,000 (including Reverse B).

Second Small Head, low relief with large rim decoration. Short trefoils in crown with 0.500 silver fineness. San Serif lettering. Security edge. Smaller legends.

Reverse B type have Serif lettering with Six-leaf lotus.

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