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Madras Presidency
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Main Classification |
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I. Early Gold, Silver and Copper
Coins:
a. Gold Coins: Gold Pagodas & Gold Fanams
b. Silver Coins:
Fanams: 1st Issue, 2nd Issue, 3rd
Issue
c. Copper Coins:
Dudu system: 1st Issue & 2nd Issue
& other cash coins
II. Mughal Style Coins:
a. Gold Mohurs
b. Silver Rupee
c. Madras Arkat Coins
III. Muhammadan System
Coins:
a. Gold Coins:
- Old design:
Rupee/mohur, Half Rupee/mohur, Quarter Rupee/mohur
- New design: Ashrafi/mohur, half ashrafi/mohur, Quarter
ashrafi/mohur, five rupees or 1/3 mohur
- Tegnapatam pagoda
b. Silver Coins:
- First European style
issue: Double rupee, Rupee, half rupee, quarter
rupee &
eight rupee
- Second
European style issue: Rupee, half rupee, quarter rupee
& eight
rupee
- Third European style
issue: Madras Mint: Rupee, half rupee,
quarter
rupee, eight rupee & sixteenth rupee
- Third European style issue: Calcutta Mint: Rupee, half rupee,
quarter
rupee, eight rupee & sixteenth rupee
c. Copper Coins:
- 4 pice, 2 pice and 1 pice
-
Madapollam Cash
IV. Later Gold, Silver and Copper Coins:
a. Gold Coins: Two Pagodas & Pagoda
b. Silver Coins:
- 1st Issue : Half &
Quarter Pagoda, Five, Double
& Fanams
- 2nd Issue : Half &
Quarter Pagoda, Five, Double
& Fanams
c. Copper Coins:
- European Minting: XX cash, x
Cash, V cash, I Cash
- Madras Minting: XL cash, XX
cash, X cash, V cash,
2½ cash
V. Northern Circar Coins:
a. Silver Coins:
- Native style issue:
Rupee, half rupee, quarter rupee
- European
style issue: Four annas & Two annas
b. Copper Coins:
- Persian only
Coins
- English only
Coins
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Persian, Tamil & Telgu coins
- All languages
coins |
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This list
was prepared by Dr. Jinadatha
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