From left to right: 1.British East India Company half Anna. 2.(top) French Indian Fleur de lis type, Puducherry mint( city name in Tamil on the reverse. Circa 1700s (bottom) Rooster type with the same reverse, 1836 3. Danish-Norwegian, minted by the Danish East Indian Company in the city Tranquebar under king Christian V in the late 1600s. 4.(top) Dutch East Indian Company minted ‘duit’ coin, 1766. (bottom) a 1695 Dutch Indian duit coin minted in the city of Negapatnam, written in Tamil on the reverse with the Hindu god Kali on the obverse!