Books
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I) “The coins of the British common wealth of nations” IV India volume 1 and 2 by Major Pridmore. Published by Spink and sons London.
Rating: *****
Comments: This is probably the Bible for British India Coin collectors. It has extensive information about most British India Coins. Highly recommend for advanced collectors. Probably too detailed for amateurs or new collectors.
II) “Coins of India” by Deepak Chakrabarthy, Published by Hobby publications, kolkatta.
Rating: ****
Comments: This is probably is a real nice starter for British India Coin collectors. It has good information with some variations as compared to Pridmore. Pictures are decent with good explanation. It is inexpensive if available. There haven't been any new reprints, whatever is available in the market are older copies. It also has Republic India Coins and Commerative coins.
III) “History of Moghul Emperors of India” by Stanley Lane Poole
IV) "History of the coinage of the Territories of the East India company in the Indian peninsula and catalogue of coins in the madras museum" by Edgar Thurston, published by Govt press, Madras.
V ) "Copper coins of India" by William valentine, published by Spink and Sons, London.
VI) “Standard catalogue of world coins” by Chester Krause and Clifford Misher, Krause publications, USA
Rating: *****
Comments: If you want to know anything about any coin in the world this would be the go to book. Probably too detailed for new collectors. Too simple for advanced collectors as some of the coins especially in the 1600-1800AD sections have been lumped. Too bulky to carry around and expensive if you are just looking for a British India Coin book. Not a bad life time investment. The books are divided into 4 separate sections and you have to buy them separately.
VII) “Coins” by Parameshwar Lal Gupta, Published by Book trust of India, New Delhi.
FAQ's
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FAQ's ABOUT WEBSITE:
1. What does these sister sites consist of?
The sister websites consist of detailed catalogue of coins and bank notes of different with pictures when available. These catalogue's are detailed, and arranged by year of release. These websites are maintained by us and are safe to browse.
2. If I have a coin and want to get opinion or identification, will Indian Coins website help?
Yes, although we would like to help every collector, we cannot answer each questions personally. Hence we encourage collectors to sign up and post their comments or identification questions on the discussion forum. You can even upload pictures for identification.
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FAQ's: ABOUT COLLECTING:
1. How & where to obtain British India Coins ?
In India, copper and nickel coins are available in large quantities in metal utensil shops. Gold and silver coins can be purchased in jewelry shop. People in need of urgent cash will sell their antique coins to pawn shop owners or local jewelers at gold or silver market price. These shops are great source for coin collector to accumulate large collections at throw away prices. Coins can also be purchased from reputable coins dealers all over the world. Some may even drop by your doorsteps. The best way to meet a large number of coins dealers is to attend various numismatic exhibitions. In recent years one can procure these coins by bidding in auctions like E bay, Spink and son, Oswal antiques & Tody auctions.
2. What to collect in British India Coins ?
For an individual it is very difficult or almost impossible to collect every British India Coin from all three presidencies to 1947 AD. Hence to have a satisfaction of detailed collection in a limited availability of time and money, one can collect coins of anyone presidency, or collect only uniform coinage from 1835 AD to 1858 AD. Similarly one can pursue to collect all rupee coins including 1862 dot varieties. Other types of collection include collecting gold, silver, and copper coins of a particular monarch from queen Victoria to king George VI.
3. To clean or not to clean the coins ?
Usually senior collectors advise not to clean the coins. It is true for ancient or medieval coins as inscriptions may get damaged. But for British India Coins one can clean gold or silver coin with caution. It is my personal opinion that a coin can be gently cleaned using a super soft toothbrush with tap water +/- mild soap solution. We strongly advice not to use harsh chemicals or acid or metal brush to clean these coins as they may cause more harm than good. For amateurs I strongly advice to refrain from cleaning of any sort until an expert opinion is sought. It should be kept in mind that it is my personal opinion based on 40 years of coin collecting & exhibiting experience.
4. How should you store these coins ?
Recent technology has brought innovative ways to store coins safely over a prolonged period. The best one in the market is solvent free vinyl folders or you can make your own folders using thin gauge OHP sheets. These folders can be brought in bulk on eBay or from your local coin dealer. It is also available in many hobby stores all over the country.
5. How do I participate in coin fairs and exhibitions?
I strongly feel one should always participate in exhibitions and coin fares as it lets other coin collectors evaluate and critique your collection. In this way you improve your knowledge base and collection. Also you get meet experts in the field who always have valuable input. You can also exhibit in local schools and chapters enhancing the knowledge of school kids and kindling their interest in this hobby. Additionally you get to meet numerous coin dealers at such gatherings.
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www.indian-coins.com is a privately owned website by Jinadatha. The sole intent of this website is to provide free accurate information about Indian coins & Currency notes. Most of the information/content of this website is from personal collection and experience combined with information from reputed books and sources. Although care has been taken to keep the information as authentic and accurate as possible, we cannot claim complete accuracy. There is still a chance for error or misinterpretation of information published on the website. Hence we advice caution to all website visitors regarding using the website information for all purposes. We will not be held responsible for any information found to be incorrect/misunderstood or any loss occurred to anyone due to improper/irrelevant use of this information. Our website is created and maintained by the family and every caution is taken to avoid virus and trojans from infecting computers. But in this era of hacking, spyware, malware all bets are off. Hence we again caution visitors to use all precautions when surfing our website like they would for other websites. We will not be held responsible for any direct or indirect loss that occurs while browsing this website. This website displays third party ads and some of these ads may leave cookies/Dart cookies on the website. If you do not want the cookies to be enabled, please visit the respective publisher website and visit their policies. For Google visit Google ad and content network privacy policy, for Microsoft visit http://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/default.mspx. Please email us if you are interested in knowing about any other cookies information we will be happy to provide the link. If these cookie policies are in violation of the law of the land, please refrain from visiting the website. We will not be responsible for claims displayed on the ads, for problems that might result by clicking one of those ads. We only publish ads from highly reputed companies and it is impossible to monitor each ad that gets displayed along with verifying the information of these ads. Please use caution in browsing the ads. The website cannot be held responsible for any problems resulting in clicking those ads. All visitor are monitored for any spamming and hacking activity. Positing on the forums are constant scrutinized. If any user or IP address is found violating the website policies, they will be banned and blocked. Pleased be advised this is a free website that provides a great resource for Indian coins and Currency collectors. Harming the website is not going to be tolerated. Strict legal actions will be pursued. By visiting this website you agree to abide by the terms and disclaimers. Please do not hesitate to contact us for any questions.
The brain child behind this website is Dr B Jinadatha. He is a retired professor of Medicine. He worked all his career teaching medical students physiology in JJM Medical College, Davangere. He has been collecting Coins and Papermoney since 1980's. His other passion was collecting Cactus plants. At the peak of collection he had about 1000 varieties of Cactus plants in over 20,000 pots. Many of his later part of Republic India Bank Notes are in the same serial number 888888. His coins are mainly from the British India and Republic India era by mint and year with some die varieties also.
Acknowledgements from Dr Jinadatha:
First and foremost I would like to thank my late wife Usha Jinadatha, who was always supportive of my hobbies. She sacrified her interests and even jewellery so I could pursue my interests. I would like to thank my son's Chetan his wife Ushma and Avinash his wife Prajna for their support and contributions in building this website. I would also like to thank my late mother Smt Bomakka for her unconditional support.
Further, I would like to thank Yuvraj Achari for his work on the website and for taking photos. Similarly, I would to thank Dr Shivaji Brid for help with photography. Mr Basant Rathi from Kolkata has given me rare and difficult to find coins. I would like to thank several contributors for rare pictures and input on the website: Mr Jhunjhunwala from Mumbai, Mr Chandrashekhar from Davangere, Mr Basavaraj Yalamalli from Davangere, Mr Rezwan Razak from Bangalore, Mr Sudip Kheria from Mumbai. Several people have helped me throught out the years with my personal collection. I would like to them all: Mr Pramod Vernekar from Belguam, Kirti and Bharath Parekh from Bangalore, Late Biswanath Kheria, Sudip Kheria and Jaganath of Venson Coffee Company.
Finally I would like to thank my long time friend and best wisher, fellow philatelist and numismatist Mr G.B Sidappa, who has been with me in every step of the process.
Useful External Links
Below are some of the useful links I have found during the development of this website. These websites are owned and operated by individuals not related to our website. These website have not been checked by us for viruses or other malware. Please visit and browse these websites at your own risk.
This is a wonderful resource for collectors of Vijayanagara Coins. The website has coin catalogue and pictures. This website is developed and maintained by Harihariah Oruganti from Chennai, India.
2. Bharat Coins:
This website by Dr Bharat from Mangalore, India. It has wonderful pictures of many varieties of British India Coins.
3. JF Campbell British India Website:
This website by Mr Campbell from Mason, Michigan, USA: is a wonderful resource about British India Coins. Great pictures and illustrations.
4. Coin India:
This website has detailed catalogue and pictures of Janapadas, Ancient Kingdom, Greek, Kushana, Gupta, Islamic and princely states.
5. RBI:
This website from Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the Federal bank has a information on coins and currency notes. You will see pictures of some specimen notes also. Overall a good authentic resouce.
This website is an excellent resource for Mughal Coins and Indian Princely State coins. Additionally, it is also an excellent resource for medals, tokens, weights etc.
This website by Chennai Museum has lot literature on various coinage periods. There are no details on varieties but overall lots of info.
This website used to be good resource, but looks like the administrator has not kept up with the maintainance. It has lots of broken links. It still contains some useful information. Browse carefully.
This is big database with all kinds of picture. They are not organised but you may get to see a lot of varieties of coins and bank notes.
10. Prabhu Coins:
This website has info and pictures from different era. Not as extensive but a good resource anyways.
Mr Anwar's website is new and an excellent resource for Sultanate coins and Mughal coins.