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5 Rupees - Victoria
| Uitgever | Government of India |
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| Jaar | 1870-1875 |
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| Oriëntatie | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Crowned and draped bust of Queen Victoria facing left, rendered in high relief in the style engraved by William Wyon. The Queen wears an ornate imperial crown and an elaborately decorated bodice with scrollwork and floral motifs, along with a beaded necklace. The legend VICTORIA QUEEN is inscribed in raised Latin characters arranged radially around the periphery of the field, reading from the lower left to the upper right. The entire design is bordered by a continuous milled dentilated rim. |
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| Schrift keerzijde | Latin |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
This issue has no business existing. The British Indian gold 5 Rupee piece was struck in tiny quantities at Calcutta during the early 1870s as a matter of administrative convenience rather than genuine monetary need — gold coinage never circulated meaningfully in everyday Indian commerce, where silver rupees dominated absolutely. Most examples were acquired by merchants, bankers, or European residents who treated them as near-bullion rather than spent them.
KM#474 is among the scarcest of the Victorian Indian gold types by surviving population.