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| 1 Indian anna | |
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| Obverse:CrownedbustofGeorge VI,with letteringGeorge 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) incopper-nickel | |
| One Quarter anna. | |
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| Obverse:King George Vcrowned 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. | |
Ananna(orānna) was acurrencyunit formerly used inBritish India,equal to1⁄16of arupee.[1]It was subdivided into fourpicesor twelvepies(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 6.25paise.The anna wasdemonetisedas a currency unit when Indiadecimalisedits 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 of1⁄16.
Annais derived from theSanskritअन्न,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 theBritish Rajby the government of British India as well as by severalprincely states,and after independence until decimalisation of the currency by India and Pakistan.
Notation
editThe 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 ofEdward VII -
2 Indian annas (1919). -
Annas - Paisa Conversion Table. -
An 1835 quarter anna.
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
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References
edit- ^"Republic India Coinage".Archived fromthe originalon 24 March 2015.Retrieved14 July2011.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.
