Indian anna
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| 1 Indian anna | |
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| Obverse: Crowned bust of George VI, with lettering George VI King Emperor. | Reverse: Year of minting and face value in numeral, English, Urdu, Bengali, Telugu and Devanagari scripts. |
| 125,548,000 coins minted (1918 to 1940) in copper-nickel
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| One Quarter anna. | |
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| Obverse: King George V crowned head surrounded by lettering "GEORGE V KING EMPEROR" at the periphery. | Reverse: Denomination and year surrounded by wreath. Lettering "ONE QUARTER ANNA INDIA 1933". |
| 1,681,276,200 coins minted from 1912 to 1936. | |
An anna (or ānna) was a
pies (thus there were 192 pies in a rupee). When the rupee was decimalised and subdivided into 100 (new) paise, one anna was therefore equivalent to 6.25 paise. The anna was demonetised as a currency unit when India decimalised
its currency in 1957, followed by Pakistan in 1961. It was replaced by the 5-paise coin, which was itself discontinued in 1994 and demonetised in 2011. The term anna is frequently used to express a fraction of 1⁄16.
Anna is derived from the Sanskrit अन्न, meaning "food".
There was a coin of one anna, and also half-anna coins of copper and two-anna pieces of silver.[2] With the rupee having been valued to 1s 6d[3] and weighing 180 grains as a 916.66 fine silver coin,[4] the anna was equivalent to 9/8 d (one penny and half a farthing). Hence the 2 anna silver coins were of low weight (22.5 grains = 1.46 g).
Anna-denominated postage stamps were issued during the
princely states
, and after independence until decimalisation of the currency by India and Pakistan.
Notation
The first number is the number of rupees, the second is the number of annas (1/16), the third is the number of paisas (1/64), and the fourth is the number of pies (1/192). Examples are given below.
- ₹1-15-3-2 = ₹1.9947
- ₹1-8-3 = ₹1.546
- ₹1-4 = ₹1.25
Coins
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One Twelfth Anna (1/12 Anna) coin of 1903 -
Obverse of the 1906 quarter anna, with the bust of Edward VII -
2 Indian annas (1919). -
Annas - Paisa Conversion Table. -
An 1835 quarter anna.
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Stamps
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Half anna stamp of British India -
One anna stamp of Alwar -
Two anna stamp of independent India -
One anna and one and a half anna stamps of independent Pakistan
See also
- Indian coinage
- British Indian coins
- History of the rupee
References
- ^ "Republic India Coinage". Archived from the original on 24 March 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2011.Accessed 14 July 2011.
- ^ "British India Coinage - Coins of Queen Victoria". Reserve Bank of India.
- ^ Schedule of Par Values, Currencies of Metropolitan Areas, The Statesman's Year Book 1947, pg xxiii, Macmillan & Co
- ^ "British India Coinage". Reserve Bank of India.
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