British India Coin Collector/Hoarder/Bidder/What Have Ya'!

I have managed to get a complete set of machine struck square coins of India, both British and post British.
Not a valuable set by any means, all of then came from dealers' junk boxes, but lots of fun to assemble the set anyway.

They are part of a collection of 81 World machine struck square coins. As far as I can tell, it is the second biggest collection of this sort in the World; a guy in Denmark has a collection that is slightly larger than mine. One gold and two silver coins in the larger World collection.

Krause catalog provided the knowledge base and pictures to enable the collection to be formed.

I also have 12 different types of silver rupees of British India, and a pure nickel tiger rupee of 1947, - a handsome coin.

We have lots of British India collectors here. I've dabbled a bit, but finally settled on a type set of rupees, including British, Portuguese, Princely State, and Mughal.

More specialists are always welcome!

I don't have much of this sort of thing but the basis of my coin collection was my grandads war collection which comprised mainly of East Africa and Indian coins from the 40's... so a few square ones there if I remember correctly. More valuable to remember his contribution to our freedom than the coins themselves.

to the Coin Community Family!

Thank you for the warm welcome and lovely anecdotes.

I will start participating here sooner than later.