Here is an Indian coin I have. The mint is skewed as you can tell. Take a look: http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/1539/picture003pc6.jpg (front) http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/200/picture004jx3.jpg (back) http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/9519/picture005gn0.jpg (middle ridges. never seen this before) What do you all think?
According to the 2007 21st Century Standard Catalog of World Coins your coin is cu-ni (KM#154.1), which was produced at the Mumbai, Calcutta, Hyderabad, and Noida mints in 2001. Both the lack of a mint mark, and the security edge, identify yours as coming from the Calcutta mint, which produced two different edge designs. There were also two varieties of the "1" in the date from the Calcutta Mint. One is listed as the "Plain 1" and the other as the "Serif 1". Unfortunately there are no pictures of the varieties. My guess is that yours is the plain version, valued in the SCWC at 25¢ VF, 50¢ XF and $1 Unc. The serif variety is listed at $1 VF, $2 XF and $3 Unc. It does seem to be stamped slightly off center, but probably not enough to rate a premium price, especially since world error coins generally don't carry the premiums that US errors do. If that's luster I'm seeing, it is at least AU and possibly Unc. :thumb:
Thanks for helping. For you to look up something in a book (I'm sure is pretty big), you have to be a nice person. Thank you.
Roy has given all the information except mint name. The mintmark below date is a star which was an exclusive mintmark for Hyderabad mint. As this is a Hyderabad mint coin, there is no sub-variety for this mint. Regards Ballabh Garg
