The Coins of India – Home Page

This site allows access to a catalogue of Indian coins containing a listing of all coins of India. Each coin type is shown with all known dates and varieties.

There are various ways of searching the website

1. Clicking on the drop-down menus at the top of this page will allow access to the various areas of the database. Once a window has been opened, expand the view by clicking on the little + sign on the left-hand side of the screen.

2. The drop-down menu on the far right (Index etc) has an alphabetical index to the site, as well as other resources such as re-opening the home page, listing the contributors with their abbreviations etc.

3. The drop-down menu labelled ‘other searches’ allows searching by mint, although the mint of issue of some coins is not certainly known, so this method will not provide access to all coins but may be useful for most Moghul and Native States coins. This menu also allows searching by geographic area and other groupings These groupings will be expanded over time.

4. Some of the information in the database has been collated into ‘books’. These can be found on the Bookshelf and can be printed out (A4 double sided)

IMPORTANT NOTE: For those wishing to reference a particular coin, click on the photo link next to the coin and then copy the URL. This can be used as a direct link to the photos.

Latest changes include: Hundreds of photos added to Aurangzeb (now probably the most complete catalogue of Aurangzeb available anywhere); updates to Sikhs; New catalogue of Western Satraps (not yet complete); plus many minor changes.

If the entry titled ‘Photo Link’ has a √ next to it, then there will be at least one, and sometimes many, photos of the coin. If there is no tick and no photo, then the entry must be considered as ‘reported but not confirmed’ unless there is a comment referring to a reliable source. The Photo Link number may change from time to time so should not be used as a reference number. The column entitled ‘Provenance’ records the source of photographs shown in the Photo Link file.

The heading ‘Comments’ might sometimes have a √ next to it. This indicates that clicking on the word ‘Comments’ will open another window with more information about the type being viewed.

‘India’ is taken in its widest sense to mean the approximate area covering present day Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and some parts of Burma.

The term ‘Moghul Contemporaries’ is taken to mean all polities contemporary to or emerging after the Moghul Empire.

The information provided here came from many different individuals and sources. These are named in the database and my thanks go to all of these people for their efforts to make available information about the coins of India.