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The first stamps valid for postage throughout India were placed on sale in October 1854 with four values: 1/2 anna, 1 anna, 2 annas, and 4 annas.[15] Featuring a youthful profileof Queen Victoriaaet.15 years, all four values were designed and printed in Calcutta, and issued without perforations or gum.
The Scinde Dawk of 1852, the first postage stamp of India is a round red sealing wafer. India has a long and varied postal history and has produced a large number of postage stamps. These have been produced by a variety of techniques including line engraving, typography, lithography, photogravure and web-offset. Stamps have been produced both ...
Revenue stamps of India. An 1861 3 Rupee Foreign Bill stamp of British India. A pair of Telegraph stamps overprinted for use as Court Fee stamps in 1870. India has been a heavy user of revenue stamps, both before and after independence. The first revenues were issued in the mid-nineteenth century and they are still being issued to this day.
Issued forty stamps with values ranging from 1⁄4 anna to 1 rupee. The last issue was released in 1893 and the stamps became obsolete during 1894. [13] A feudatory state in what is now Madhya Pradesh. All stamps of Barwani are typographed. A total of 41 stamps were issued with values ranging from 1⁄4 anna to 4 annas.
The Indian rupee was a silver-based currency during much of the 19th century, which had severe consequences on the standard value of the currency, as stronger economies were on the gold standard. During British rule, and the first decade of independence, the rupee was subdivided into 16 annas.
1,681,276,200 coins minted from 1912 to 1936. An anna (or ānna) was a currency unit formerly used in British India, equal to of a rupee. [1] It was subdivided into four pices or twelve 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.
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-millimetre (0.863 in) and thickness of 1.45-millimetre (0.057 in). In independent India, one rupee coins was first ...
The first stamps of Iraq were a definitive series that appeared in 1923; the set of 12 included eight different designs depicting scenes and images from ancient history and the present day. They were denominated in annas and rupees, inscribed with "IRAQ" and "POSTAGE & REVENUE" and were designed by Edith Cheesman and Marjorie Maynard. [6]