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Mumbai Mint has a state-of-the-art gold refining facility up to 999.9. Hyderabad Mint has electrolytic silver refining facility up to 999.9. Commemorative coins are made at Mumbai and Kolkata. Kolkata and Hyderabad have facilities for making medallions, too. The Noida mint was the first in the country to mint coins of stainless steel.
List of coins minted in foreign mint [15] Mint Country Year Coin Mint Mark Birmingham Mint: United Kingdom 1985 ₹1.00 'H' below last digit of the year Royal Mint: United Kingdom 1985 ₹1.00 ' ' below first digit of the year Taegu Mint: South Korea 1985 ₹0.50 '★' below first digit of the year Royal Canadian Mint: Canada 1985 ₹0.25
The Indian 1-rupee coin (₹1) is an Indian coin worth one Indian rupee and is made up of a hundred paisas. Currently, one rupee coin is the smallest Indian coin in circulation. Since 1992, one Indian rupee coins are minted from stainless steel. Round in shape, the one rupee coins weighs 3.76 grams (58.0 grains), has a diameter of 21.93 ...
India Government Mint, Hyderabad was established in 1803 AD by Mir Akbar Ali Khan Sikander Jah, Asaf Jah III as a private mint and along with other private mints in the country. The mint produced Indian coins in the name of Emperor of India. Initially the mint was situated at Sultan Sahi in Moghalpura suburb of the Hyderabad city.
The India Government Mint, Mumbai is one of the four mints in India and is in the city of Mumbai. The mint was established in 1824 by the then governor of the Bombay Presidency. [1] Its main activity is the production of commemorative and development-oriented coins. The mint is opposite the Reserve Bank of India in the Fort area of South Mumbai.
Mint Mark Description Comments Hyderabad ☆ Five-pointed star: Kolkata: No mint-mark: Since this was the first Indian mint, coins minted in Kolkata don't carry a mark. [7] Mumbai ⧫ Diamond • Small dot (solid) B: Letter B below year: M: Letter M below year: On coins minted after 1996. Noida ° Small dot (hollow)
The first Indian coins of Apollodotus used Indian symbols. These coins associated the elephant with the Buddhist Chaitya or arched-hill symbol, sun symbols, six-armed symbol, and a river. The bull had a Nandipada in front. The symbol at the top of the bull is only a mint mark. These symbols disappeared soon after, and only the elephant and the ...
Other types of coins, including gold coins (suvarṇarūpa), copper coins (tāmrarūpa), and lead coins (sīsarūpa), are also mentioned. [12] The immediate precursor of the rupee is the rūpiya —the silver coin weighing 178 grains minted in northern India, first by Sher Shah Suri during his brief rule between 1540 and 1545, and later adopted ...