India 1850 to 1860 – Victoria, Crowned – Rupee Pattern 1860

On 30^th June 1859, the Treasury in London authorised the Master of the Royal Mint to prepare matrices and punches for the new Indian coinage. L.C. Wyon engraved the dies, and the initial patterns for the rupee were prepared in and dated 1860. Examples of this coin exist struck on both normal thickness and extra thick (piedfort) flans.