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The Tamil units of measurement is a system of measurements that was traditionally used in ancient Tamil -speaking parts of South India. These ancient measurement systems spanned systems of counting, distances, volumes, time, weight as well as tools used to do so. While modern India uses the metric system International System of Units (Tamil ...
Pagoda (coin) French East India Company -issued "Gold Pagoda" for Southern India trade, cast in Pondicherry 1705–1780. The pagoda, also called the hoon, [1] was a unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half-gold minted by Indian dynasties as well as the British, the French and the Dutch. It was subdivided into 42 fanams.
Travancore Fanam. The Travancore Fanam was a type of money that was issued by the State of Travancore, now mainly a part of Kerala in South India. The Fanams (also spelt Fanoms) and Chuckrams (or Chakrams) were known to be some of the smallest coins in the world. The word Fanam appears to be an Anglo-Germanic sound shift from the word Panam ...
Vijayanagara coinage. The Vijayanagara Empire from 1336–1646, was situated in Southern India and had a complex currency system that was used after the Empire ceased to exist. The standard unit of coin issued by the Vijayanagara Empire was the gold Pagoda in English or Varaha of 3.4 gr. The Varaha was also called the Hon, Gadyana or a Pon and ...
The India Government Mint (ISO: Bhārata Sarakāra Ṭakasāla) operated four mints in the country for the production of coins: Mumbai, Maharashtra. Kolkata, West Bengal. Hyderabad, Telangana. Noida, Uttar Pradesh [1] The functions of the mint were replaced by the Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India in 2006.
1908. The Indian Head gold pieces or Pratt-Bigelow gold coins were two separate coin series, identical in design, struck by the United States Mint: a two-and-a-half-dollar piece, or quarter eagle, and a five-dollar coin, or half eagle. The quarter eagle was struck from 1908 to 1915 and from 1925–1929. The half eagle was struck from 1908 to ...
1 Indian rupee (1918) featuring King George V. Uniform coinage was introduced in India by the British in 1835, with coins in the name of the East India Company, bearing the image of William IIII. In 1840, these were replaced by coins with an image of Queen Victoria, but the design otherwise remained the same.
Designer. Stanley Witten. The Big Maple Leaf (BML) is a $1 million (CAD) gold coin weighing 100 kilograms (220 lb) (3,215 troy ounces). A set of five [1] of these coins was produced by the Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) in 2007, at their Ottawa facility where the first BML produced remains in storage. The Big Maple Leaf was recognized by the ...