India

IdahoGal

My sister-in-law is from India and she brought me back some coins from her last visit. All common "pocket change" stuff but still cool, I thought. Here are a few pictures...

oldshep

That's what makes world coins so much fun - we only get to see them in shows and sales but when you realize that these are actually in use as currency it makes it more interesting.
Shep

cladking

Indian pocket change is of extreme interest to me. These base metal coins go all
the way back to 1950 and are used by over a billion people. Surprisingly at least
some of these were saved and a few are actually common in uncirculated condition.
What makes it so very surprising is that even rarities of modern Indian coins bring
a very modest premium so why would someone save "common junk" in unc. Many
modern Indian coins witth mintages in the thousands can be purchased for a dol-
lar or two. While some of the circulating coinage probably is rare in unc, it has prov-
en extremely difficult to identify so this is one country which I try to collect. The cu/ni
one rupee coins are the ones which appear to be the hardest but correspondents in
India tell me they are common there.

I was curious about the extraction of your beautiful niece/ nephew. This must be
their mother.

IdahoGal

Yes, Cladking. She is the mother of my niece and nephew.

I thought it was really thoughtful of her to bring these back for me. She also brought me some paper money...

a2labmom

I just love the coinage and currency from India. I work with about 15 gentlemen from India and each time they travel back home, they empty their pockets on my desk. Some of the stuff they have given me is just absolutley fascinating.

laurentyvan

Indian coins are also of particular interest to me. My father served in India, China, and Burma during WWII, and had a bronze plaque in his honor placed on the front gate to the University of Calcutta for diverting a half million textbooks from sanctioned US burning during an illegal midnight multi-truck rescue from US Army warehouses at midnight at the end of the war and getting them to the University successfully... (nothing like a run-on sentence, eh?)

I would love to have all collectors with a fondness for India agree on a date for an Indian coin photo thread.

Askari

Very nice coins, IG!! Certainly nothing like them in the US repertoire!

lordmarcovan

IdahoGal on the Darkside.

How cool is that?

0john0

How cool is that?

Very, very cool!

IdahoGal

Thanks guys!