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This book has been specially designed for budding collectors and dealers in coins who wish to acquire basic but authentic information about their hobby/occupation. For reasons of convenience and economy, coverage is restricted to machine-made uniform coinage of the East India Company in India in 1835 A.D. to the present day, excluding the innumerable coins issued by the various autonomous princely states about a hundred. About four hundred coins have been ...
Amateur Numismatists avoid collection of States coins, primarily because they are difficult to decipher. One of the reason is that the legend of these coins is almost incomplete. To decipher a state coin, mint name and mint mark are necessary. In most of the state coins, the name of ruler is that of the Mughal king in Delhi and that information is not adequate to place the coin. Similar is the case of regnal year to mitigate this problem, effort has been in this ...
This small book is written specially to meet the needs of collectors to help identify Akbar's coins on their own. It is for this reason that an effort has been made to describe and illustrate as many types as possible. Wherever clear specimens were not available I have not hesitated to use sketches from old published works. As coins from many different sources have been discussed and illustrated two problems have cropped up with which I am afraid the reader will ...