Here is latest Rs.20 note issued with rupee symbol
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Saturday, February 4, 2012
New Indian Bank notes with Rupee Symbol.
The Reserve Bank of India
1. Rupee 1000
2. Rupee 500
3. Rupee 100
4. Rupee 10
As of January 2012, the new Indian rupee sign has been incorporated in the currency notes in the denomination of
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Languages
Each banknote has its amount written in 15 languages. On the obverse side, the denomination is written in English and Hindi. On the reverse of each note is a language panel that displays the denomination of the note in 15 of the 22 official languages of India. The languages are displayed in the alphabetical order. The languages included on the panel are Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
Friday, October 21, 2011
A new series of coins with improved design and revised size in the denomination of 50 paise, Rs. 1, 2, 5, and 10 were released in July 2011.
The present series of coins of 50 paise, Rs. 1, 2, and 5 contain a flowery design and for Rs.10, the number of petals have been brought down to 10 in place of the existing 15 petals. The parallel lines on the obverse side of the Rs. 10 coin have been removed and the size of Ashok Pillar has been increased.
The new series of coins have been introduced with the new rupee symbol and with features at the edge, which make it convenient for easy recognition and distinction. The design has been adopted keeping in mind the difficulties faced by visually challenged people.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
THE MUGHAL DYNASTY - COINS
COINS & WEIGHTS
The Mughal Dynasty was founded by Babur in 1526 as the result of his victory over the last Lodi Sultan, Ibrahim, in the first battle of Panipat in 1526. This victory enabled Babur to occupy Delhi and Agra. Then in 1527 Babur defeated Rana Sanga of Mewar at the battle of Khanua and thus broke Rajput resistance. Lastly, in 1528 Babur inflicted a second defeat on the Afghans in the battle of the Ghagra and thus extended his rule over Bihar and Bengal. These three victories made Babur the Emperor of northern India and enabled him to found the Mughal dynasty which ruled in India from 1526 to 1858. The dynasty composed nineteen sovereigns of whom the first six, namely Babur (1526-30), Humayun (1530-56, with a break from 1540 to 1555), Akbar (1556-1605), Jahangir (1605-27), Shah Jahan (1627-58) and Aurangzeb (1658-1707) are generally called the great Mughals.
Akbar brought the whole of north India as well as Khandesh and Berar in the Deccan under his rule. The process of extension was continued by the next three rulers until at last in the reign of Aurangzeb the Mughal Empire came to comprise of the whole of India from the foot of the Himalayas on the north to Cape Comorin on the south. But events soon showed that the Mughal Emperor had devoured more than he could digest. Further, Aurangzeb deliberately gave up the policy of religious toleration on which Akbar had based his imperialism, and desired to turn India into an empire for the benefit of Islam. This radical change in policy led to Hindu revolts initiated, first, in Maharashtra by Shivaji and then spreading among the Sikhs in the Punjab, the Jats in Bundelkhand and in Rajputana amongst the Rajputs who had been since the time of Akbar loyal supporters of the Mughal empire. Further complications were created by the presence in India of European traders from Portugal, Holland, England, and France who had aspirations beyond trade, and who had better military equipment and organisation and completely outstripped the Mughals in naval power. Lastly, wars of succession became a feature of Mughal dynastic rule from the end of Jahangir's reign and greatly weakened the Crown. As a result, the last thirteen rulers of the Mughal dynasty, generally called the Later Mughal Emperors, were weak sovereigns whose dominions progressively declined throughout the eighteenth century - a process which was hastened by the invasions of Nadir Shah in 1739 and of Ahmad Shah Abdali from 1751 to 1767.
The later Mughal soveriegns were Bahadur Shah I, or Shah Alam Bahadur (1707-12), Jahandar Shah (1712-13), Farrukhsiyar (1713-19), Rafi-ud-Darjat (1719), Rafi-ud-Daulat (1719), Nikusiyar (1719), Ibrahim (1719), Muhammad Shah (1719-48), Ahmad Shah (1748-54), Alamgir II (1754-59), Shah Alam II (1759-1806), Akbar II (1806-37), and Bahadur Shah II (1837-58).
The Mughal dynasty which had been founded by Babur's victory at the first battle of Panipat in 1526 and confirmed by Akbar's victory at the second battle of Panipat in 1556, received its death blow at the third battle of Panipat in 1761 when Ahmad Shah Abdali helped by Shuja-ud-daula, the Nawab of Awadh, defeated the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II, and his Maratha allies and protectors. Thereafter it dragged on a miserable existence not on account of any strength of its own but on account of rivalries amongst its possible successors, namely the seceding Muslim states, the rebellious Hindus, and the clever and steady English merchants, the last of whom defeated all their Muhammadan and Hindu competitors by exploiting their mutual, undying, suspicious jealousies and hostilities and succeeded in placing their soverignty in place of that of the Mughal dynasty. The last nominal Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah II, who had been a virtual pensioner of the English since his accession, was formally deposed in 1858 for his alleged conspiracy in the Sepoy Mutiny and exiled to Rangoon in Burma where he died in 1862.
Chronology of Mughal Empire
- Ahmad Shah Bahadur - AH 1161-1167/1748-1754 AD
- Alamgir II - AH 1167-1173/1754-1759 AD
- Shah Jahan III - AH 1173-1174/1759-1760 AD
- Shah Alam II - AH 1174-1221/1759-1806 AD
- Bedar Bakht (In Delhi & Gujarat) - AH 1202-1203/1788 AD
- Muhammad Akbar II - AH 1221-1253/1806-1837 AD
Bahadur Shah Zafar - AH 1253-1273/1837-1858 AD
COINS & WEIGHTS
Description | Weight (gm) |
GOLD | |
1000 Tola (Mohurs) | 11,935.8 |
Nazarana 200 Mohurs | 2,170 -- 2,275 |
100 Mohurs | 1,094. 5 |
5 Mohurs | 54.63 |
Heavy Mohur | 12.2/12.9/12.10 |
Heavy 1/2 Mohur | 5.96 |
Heavy 1/4 Mohur | 3.20 |
Zodiac Mohur | 10.80/10.85 |
Mohur | 10.75/10.85/10.90/11.03 |
1/2 Mohur | 5.15/5.38/5.50 |
1/4 Mohur | 2.70 |
1/10 Mohur | 1.5 |
1/30 Mohur | 0.36 |
Nisar | 5.70 |
SILVER | |
Nazarana Rupee | 10.27 |
Heavy Rupee | 13.40/13.55/14.20 |
Zodiac Rupee | 11.44 |
Rupee | 10.95/11.35/11.44/11.53 |
Sultani | 6.77 |
Shahrukhi | 4.3 |
1/2 Rupee | 5.70/5.72 |
1/4 Rupee | 2.86/3.71 |
1/8 Rupee | 1.2 -1.43 |
1/10 Rupee | 1.14 |
1/16 Rupee | 0.71 |
Nisar | 0.60/1.4/2.63/2.70/2.75 |
Unit | 5.5 |
1/2 Unit | 2.75 |
1/2 Misqal | |
COPPER | |
2 Dams (double) | 39.8 - 40.70-41.40 |
Dam | 19.50/19.90/20.55/20.7/20.96/21.0/21.32 |
Falus | 13.70 |
1/2 Dam | 10.10/10.15 |
1/2 Falus | 3.20 |
Tanka | 40.0/41.10 |
1/4 Dam | 5.0/6.55 |
1/8 Dam | 2.20/2.45 |
1/16 Dam | 1.20 |
4 Tanki | 14.90-15.75 /16.4 |
2 Tanki | 7.35/8.2 |
Tanki | 3.82/4.1 |
Nisfi | 9.85/10.15 |
Damra | 5.10 |
Damri | 2.53 |
Dam - Later Issue | 19.7 |
Tanka (Hammered dum) | 6.55 |
Nisar | 2.90 |
The research area & study of these coins of Mughal era are vast subject that required lot of consultation from experts in this field . The above table has been prepared in consultation of fellow experts from World of Coins forum . I would like to thank expert members for their contribution & suggestions.
Being a challenging task and to precisely list such data would take lot of time & energy.
There is further scope of improvement in above table based on future attribution of new coins with unlisted weights & metal composition.
I would appreciate and welcome comments & suggestions on above data.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Who Collects What?
As soon as someone starts to collect something a word is invented to describe the collector. Most end in- ist, which means a person who does something (as a motorist is someone who drives a car or a
violinist someone who plays a violin). Another ending is-phile or philist, which means a lover of something.
violinist someone who plays a violin). Another ending is-phile or philist, which means a lover of something.
Collectable Collector
- airmail stamps aerophilatelist
- autographs philographist
- badges and patches scutelliphilist
- banknotes notaphilist
- beer bottle labels labeorphilist
- beer mats tegestologist or tegetologist
- books bibliophile or bibliophilist
- butterflies and moths lepidopterist
- cameos cameist
- cheese labels laclabphilist
- cigar bands brandophilist/ cigrinophilist
- cigarette cards cartophilist
- coins, money, medals numismatist
- corkscrews helixophile
- dolls plangonologist
- eggs oologist
- egg-cups pocillovist
- fags and banners vexillologist
- gramophone records discophiilist
- keyrings copoclephilist
- match books phillumenist
- matchboxes cumyxaphilist
- money boxes argyrothecologist
- postcards deltiologist
- prints and book illustrations iconophilist
- shells conchologist
- stamps philatelist
- sugar packets sucrologist
- teddy bears arctophilist
- telephone cards fusilatelist
- arctophile -one who collects bear figures
- audiophile -an audio enthusiast (by extension: one who collects audio equipment
- discophile -one who collects phonograph records, now also includes CDs.
- errinophilist -one who collects revenue or tax stamps (NOT postage stamps).
- ex-librist -one who collects bookplates
- exonumist -one who collects numismatic items other than coins & paper money.
- heortologist -one who studies religious calendars (by extension: and collects).
- iconophile -one who collects prints, engravings, etc
- phonophile -one who collects phonograph records
- pyrographer -one who burns designs on wood or leather with hot instruments
- telegery -one who collects telephone calling cards
- vecturist -one who collects transportation tokens/tickets
- xylographer -one who makes woodcuts or engravings.
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