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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bgarg, post: 209139, member: 1876&quot;]I won&#039;t say those restrike were produced as a result of any corrupt mint director or mint spoils.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was Bombay mint&#039;s policy and approved by Indian government to restrike the proofs using original dies. They had all these dies for different coins they produced in last few hundred years.</p><p><br /></p><p>The procedure was simple and anybody can request for those restrikes in exchange of equivalent amount of metal and a specified fees. The mint will struck the coin and will send it back to the requestor.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the restrikes were done in gold, but were not limited to. These restrikes are also known in other metals like silver, copper, copper-nickel, aluminium etc. (However these off-metal strikes are pretty scarce as in those days nobody wanted a Gold mohur struck in silver or copper. The mint records also indicates that OMS was not popular amongst collectors in those days)</p><p><br /></p><p>The number of these restrikes are also very low and not much is available in collectors market today. So, it&#039;s tough to get these coins for the prices indicated in Krause. There are dealers who even pays upto 120% of the price listed in Krause for some of these early gold restrikes and OMS issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regards</p><p>Ballabh Garg[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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