Your greatest british india coin

[akhedia]

My Greatest British India coin in possession is the 1911 Half Rupee (Pig Variety) of George V  coin in About VF condition. I consider this as Greatest for 2 reasons :

1. Because of its Historical controversy and rarity and

2. I inherited this coin from my Grand father

I shall try and post the picture sometime later this week................

[The Oracle]

My British India coin collection consists of exactly 8 very common circulated coins. I like every one of them.
Someday maybe I will get an oportunity to work on them but can't do everything all at once.
Greatest?  They all are at this point.
Dale

sorry you have to pick one

[The Oracle]

To steal a quote from Bhushan (@PeaceDB)  from a different topic:
However,  I would say my 1861 ½ Pice pattern is my "greatest British India" coin (so far). 

When the British Government formally took over administration of India from the East India company it commissioned a new design of British India coinage to replace the East India Co coinage.  This coin was designed by L. C. Wyon, the chief engraver  of the [British] Royal mint the coin and was produced as part of a full set of silver and copper dated 1861 and struck as proof. Pridmore designates these as patterns.  Some modifications were made to the design and these coins were produced for circulation in 1862.  This design remained largely unchanged up until the end of the Victoria reign 1900.

thats a few years coin budget right there for most of us.  very nice. 

[The Oracle]

Many but this one i choose

1840 Coin QV

Samir

thats the idea.  nice. 

[The Oracle]

As Harry quoted me from another topic its a very hard question to answer. But I a thrilled to see the response to this thread. I suggest we also mention why we consider these coins best from our collection.
The coin I am going to post is indirectly a BI coin. I consider it to be one of the best in my collection due to its quality, beauty and rarity.



Thanks
Bhushan

Peace   

[The Oracle]

I just have 2 silver British India coins of which my favorite is UNC George VI 1943 1/2 Rupee that I bought in April this year. 

post pics 

[The Oracle]

I have a few british india rupees but none is that great as I can discuss here. But yes one is great to me. I have a chapter of contemporary fakes. And this fake is really really special to me. This one is my greatest BI rupee which had had circulations during British period and now is captured and has received the sentence to my coin album as contemporary fake british rupee.

Islam

nice

[The Oracle]

I can't compete with the high grade coins posted by others, I'm afraid, and most of my older BI coins are well-used. So my choice is for different reasons. This Victoria rupee was given to me by my grandfather, along with an assortment of other old coins, when I was eight, and as such is probably the first Indian coin I owned. Certainly the first East India issue, at any rate. I don't know where he got it from, but I've always imagined that it had been with him all his life. His parents met and married in India and his older sister was born there. He was born in England but the family returned to India soon after his birth. His father then contracted appendicitis and died, leaving his wife to bring two small children back to England and then look after them on her own. I imagine that the coin was a keepsake of the family and was passed from my great-grandmother to my grandfather, and then to me.

great story great coin

[paisepagal]

Because the Oracle insists   

This one is especially unique to me because ironically it was the first one that came out of a bag of 5kilos of the very same type... 1118 mostly AU pieces to be precise. My dad, the brilliant negotiator that he is, bought this for me for a song and with wonderful foresight.
Now I keep gifting a little bit away each time I come across a promising collector and potential friend !

[The Oracle]

Because the Oracle insists   

This one is especially unique to me because ironically it was the first one that came out of a bag of 5kilos of the very same type... 1118 mostly AU pieces to be precise. My dad, the brilliant negotiator that he is, bought this for me for a song and with wonderful foresight.
Now I keep gifting a little bit away each time I come across a promising collector and potential friend !

nice i will take one kilo.  i can do with a few friends myself 

[paisepagal]

nice i will take one kilo.  i can do with a few friends myself 

Sorry dear friend, your quota was filled a couple years back 

[Coinsforever]

I have one 1/2 pice - 1905 coin of Edward VII with ghost image and I think  that  coin can be put into such category (captioned subject).

Cheers

[@josephjk]

Sorry dear friend, your quota was filled a couple years back 

And I filled mine this year some of the better BI coins I have, thank your Dad for me!

[Mackie]

Sorry dear friend, your quota was filled a couple years back 

Wow now I know why I had this coin with the rest of Republic India coins you had given me. Thanks a ton, Ashwin.

[The Oracle]

And I filled mine this year some of the better BI coins I have, thank your Dad for me!

hmm we never saw those BI coins