The Indian Currency Collection

Welcome to the FIRST site on the Web on Indian Currency. This site gives a brief account of the history of Indian Paper Money, guidelines on collecting Indian currency, and a select bibliography on references about Indian currency.

As a classification, Indian Paper Money can be grouped into the following categories:

1. Notes issued by the early Private and Semi-Government Banks (up to 1861 AD), popularly called as Presidency Banks.
2. Notes of the Government of India (1861-1925).
3. Pictorial Notes bearing portrait of King George V.
4. Pictorial Notes bearing portrait of King George VI.
5. Notes issued by the Reserve Bank of India; the Post-Independence period.
6. Notes issued by Indo-French territories.
7. Notes issued by Indo-Portuguese territories.
8. Prisoner-of-War coupons, including coupons issued to internees during the Boer war, WWI, WWII and the Indo-Pak wars.
9. Notes issued by the Princely states in India (Hyderabad, Jammu & Kashmir, etc.)
10. Emergency Issues (Cash Coupons) of the Princely states issued during 1942-1945.
11. Indian Currency used in other countries (Burma, Pakistan, Gulf and Haj).

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