Indo-Greeks
Historians believe that coins were introduced in India sometime around the 5th and 6th centuries BC to facilitate trade. The earliest coins were silver and punch-marked with various symbols of animals, plants, and humans.
Not Kushanas, It was Gupta's, who introduced Gold Coins in India..
EAST INDIA COMPANY COPIED COINSEast India coinage was started in 1835. Anything earlier then that period is fake. Search he internet for more information on East Indian coins. I have seen people having lot of such coins and asking stupid price for so called rare coins.
Lord Cornwallis introduced the 'Sunset Law' in India while he introduced his Permanent Settlement.
Indo-Greeks
Mohammad bin Tughlaq
Not Kushanas, It was Gupta's, who introduced Gold Coins in India..
Historians believe that coins were introduced in India sometime around the 5th and 6th centuries BC to facilitate trade. The earliest coins were silver and punch-marked with various symbols of animals, plants, and humans.
William H. Valentine has written: 'The copper coins of India' -- subject(s): Coins, Indian, Indian Coins
British copper plated steel 1 and 2 Pence coins were introduced in 1992.
No, they did not. If you have a coin dated 1616 from the East India Co, it is a reproduction or the like.
Copper-plated steel has been used since 1993.
In ancient times, coins were made from brass, copper, silver, and gold. The use of nickel was not introduced until modern times.
If you refer to the scrap value of the copper, there is no copper in British "copper" coins these days.
Pure copper has not been used to make British coins for about 150 years. From 1860, British "copper" coins were made from bronze which consisted mostly of copper varying from 95 to 97% copper. From 1992, British "copper" coins were made from copper plated steel. Ironically, copper is used to make modern "silver" coins (cupro-nickel) consisting usually of 75% copper and 25% nickel.
US nickels are made of 75% copper and 25% nickel, and have been since they were introduced in 1866. The only ones containing silver are dated 1942-1945.