Victoria Queen
1862 Rupee
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VICTORIA
The Coins of British
India
Queen Victoria
1862 - 1901
Reference
Books
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Victoria Empress
1883B Rupee
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Following are a small set of reference
books for studying the coins of British India. The Krause books
are standard reference guides with suggested pricing. They provide
a good checklist for coins. Most of the others are more detailed
in their study of the coins and their many varieties.
-- Franklin Campbell
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Standard Catalog of World Coins
by Chester L. Krause and Cliffort Mishler
Colin R. Bruce II, Senior Editor
World Coin Listings and Value Guide
1801 - 1900
second edition, copyright 1999
This excellent reference
book is readily available and is a valuable guide for the world
coin collector. It has an excellent British India section, though
without the kind of detail available in the following books.
The collector of all monarchs will certainly want the standard
edition covering the 20th century as well. Unfortunately for
Victoria collectors, this volume does not currently list the
1901 issues. A detailed listing is provided for all the coins,
along with useful pricing guidelines for four grades. No British
India collector should be without this useful reference.
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Standard Catalog of World Coins
by Chester L. Krause and Cliffort Mishler
Colin R. Bruce II, Senior Editor
World Coin Listings and Value Guide
1801 - 1900
third edition, copyright 2001
This excellent reference
book is available in a third edition which has a few changes
in the India section. Like the previous edition, this volume
does not list the 1901 issues of Victoria. I finally decided
to add this new edition to my book shelf, partly to be sure
I wasn't missing something at the web site. There are only a
few new coins listed for Victoria, so you may find the older
edition (along with the checklists on this web site) sufficient.
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Collecting
World Coins
by Chester L. Krause and Cliffort Mishler
More than a century of circulating issues
1901 - Present
tenth edition, copyright 2003
Like the 1801-1900 edition,
this volume is an essential resource for the collector of British
India. I added this book to my shelf when I decided to expand
to the monarchs following Queen Victoria. There seems to be
a blank space where the George VI Rupee KM-551 should appear,
but it is just as useful as the above Krause catalogs. It's
too bad you can get a small volume containing the listings for
all of British India 1801-present.
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Hundred Years of Indian Coinage
by Dr. K. N. Sharif
Libra Publishing House
45 Lalbaugh High Road
Bangalore 560 027 India
First Edition 1979
Dr. K. N. Sharif, a numismatist
from Bangalore, India, has provided an excellent resource for
the British India collector in this volume covering the years
1862 through 1956. The book contains many line drawings and
a few photographs to illustrate the many varieties. I ordered
this book directly from India in the 1970's but a quick search
on the Internet revealed it was still available. If you can
find a copy you won't be sorry if you purchase it. Dr. Sharif
claims to have examined literally thousands of coins to compile
the information contained in this volume. One novelty I found
in my first edition was the use of hand-drawn lines around some
of the tables.
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The Coins of the British Commonwealth of Nations
to the end of the reign of George VI, 1952
Part 4 INDIA
Volume 2 UNIFORM COINAGE
East India Company 1835-58
Imperial period 1858-1947
by F. Pridmore
Spink & Son LTD, London, 1980
This is an incredibly detailed
and painstakenly-researched work on the coins of India, including
proofs and trial strikes. No serious collector of British India
should be without this book. It is still available on the used
book market, though it won't be cheap. Still, I strongly recommend
your investment in this excellent and inspirational work.
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The Guide Book
and Catalogue of
British Commonwealth Coins
1649-1971
Third Edition
Jerome Remick, Somer James,
Anthony Dowle, Patrick Finn
Regency Coin and Stamp Co. Ltd.
Canada, 1971
This
is useful reference book containing detailed listings along
with photographs and line drawings of features of the coins.
It also covers many other countries of the British Empire, which
may make it attractive to many collectors. There are catalog
values for the coins in six grades, though (of course) they
are rather dated now. There are many illustrations and notes
on the features of the coins of India, so this is an excellent
addition to the library of a collector of British India coins.
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Nineteenth
& Twentieth Century
Coins of India
(British India and Post-independence period)
1979
D. Chakravarty
Hobby Publications
Calcutta, 1979
I can't speak with any authority
on this book I only recently received, but it appears to have
a lot of interesting details and may provide material unavailable
elsewhere. One very interesting addition is the effort to update
the book through Addenda. I have four of these dated 1979-83,
1984-87, 1988-91 and 1991-95. If you purchase this book be sure
to ask about these supplements.
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A Catalog of
Modern World Coins
10th Edition, 1972
R. S. Yeoman
Western Publishing Company, Inc.
Racine, Wisconsin
This was probably my first
book on world coins and is an excellent catalog for the world
type collector. I still label my coins using the "Y"
numbers, as you can see on the checklist pages. The listings
show only the major coin types with date spans listed for each
coin type. At the Amazon web site Scott Semans said this in
his review of the 1984 edition of this book (which covers 1850-1964):
"Simply put, this is THE classic handbook for world coins
for a generation of collectors; first edition, 1964. ... Yeoman
is still worth having because it is compact, because it lists
coins in historical rather than denominational order, and because
of its numbering system - still in use and the most sensible
ever developed for world coinages."
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India's 1862
Rupees
by George Falcke and Robert L. Clarke
Copyright 1971 by Krause Publications, Inc.
This
interesting little pamphlet (36 pages, including cover) is restricted
to the Rupees dated 1862. As it says, "The material presented
in this monograph was originally presented in two installments
in the August and September, 1970, issues of Coins Magazine.
It has been completely revised and updated to incorporate the
latest available details relating to the Indian rupee series
of 1862."
Though
naturally dated, this publication contains some very useful
material, including many photographs (though reproduction isn't
of high qualify, the photos are large enough to reveal some
details). Some of the photographs illustrate details I haven't
seen mentioned elsewhere. There is a discussion of the count
of ridges along the edge of the coin, something I've never seen
elsewhere. I believe this pamphlet will prove to be most useful
and will suggest valuable areas of research.
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