Posted 08/08/2010 12:05 am
Don't forget that India obtained machine-struck coinage only relatively recently in it's history. Prior to that, coins were struck the old fashioned way, by a guy with a big hammer. Finding off-centre, double-struck and coins with large parts of the design missing was normal and it was the perfectly centred fully struck-up coins which were the scarce, desirable exceptions.
In 1903 some of the princely states were still making their own hammered coins, which circulated alongside the machine-struck colonial coins. It probably took a long time for the mentality to change from "errors are garbage" to "errors are cool".
In 1903 some of the princely states were still making their own hammered coins, which circulated alongside the machine-struck colonial coins. It probably took a long time for the mentality to change from "errors are garbage" to "errors are cool".
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