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New Member
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Well my father has collected coin's when he was young and gave them to me... One of them is a 1919 1 Anna British India. I would like to know how much the price is and any information anyone could give me. I have kept it in the best condition I could get it in and this is it. Here's a picture of it. I don't plan on selling but price's are nice to know anyway's.   ***Edited by Forum Dad to fix image code***Edited by Jesseeast
02/07/2008 11:28 pm
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 Australia
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All 1919 1 annas were struck in the Bombay mint, mintage 122.8 million - a very high mintage for this series. Made of cupronickel, the same alloy as American and Canadian "nickels". Listed in the Krause world coin catalogue as KM# 513.
Catalogue price in that condition (Fine) is 25 cents.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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New Member
 Canada
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Oh, I thought it would have been worth a bit more. Is there any other information anyone can tell me?
Edited by Jesseeast
02/08/2008 4:54 pm
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Australia
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Not much more to tell, apart from some general background information.
The British Indian monetary system was non-decimal, and binary-based. There were 16 annas to a rupee, which was a medium-sized silver coin roughly equivalent to a British halfcrown or North American half dollar. I said "binary-based" because coins were issued in denominations of 1 anna, 2 annas (which were diamond-shaped), 4 annas (quarter-rupee), 8 annas (half-rupee) and 16 annas (rupee). There were also fractions: half-anna (also diampond-shaped), quarter-anna (also called a "pice"), eighth-anna (half pice) and finally 1/12th anna.
Here in Australia, these coins are very common. This is because troop ships enroute to or from the battlefields of both WWI and WWII often stopped off in India, and many an old soldier's collection of war souvenirs will contain examples of these coins. Passenger ships bringing immigrants to this country often stopped there as well.
The foreign lettering around the edge simply says "1 anna" in Farsi, Nagari, Bengali and Tamil script.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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New Member
Canada
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Ah, thank's for telling me all this.
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New Member
United States
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Isn't farsi the same script that is used in Iran? Do you know if the language is Farsi or some Indian language like Urdhu?
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Australia
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As I understand it's usage at the time, Farsi, or Persian, was the name given to the script used to write the Urdu language. Either way, it's a local variant of Arabic. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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New Member
United States
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Thank you. That is what I thought. Then would Nagari be the script used to write Hindi?
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New Member
United States
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I looked it up and nagari is the script used to write Hindi. I have an example of that coin and it had never occured to me that their are five languages written on a single coin.
I can't think of any country that has five langauages on their coins. Many have two languages. Israel for one has three languages but five is a lot of languages to have on one coin.
I would not be surprised if somewhere there is a commemmorative that has a dozen languages saying "peace" or something like that.
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Either way, it's a local variant of Arabic.
Just as an FYI, I do believe that Urdu is much closer to Persian, and only borrows Arabic words due to Islamic influences. In fact, Hindi and Urdu are a lot closer languages than any semblance to Arabic, other than adaptation of their script. The Persians I know are keen to point out their language is not Arabic. |
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