SIKH COINS GROUP
It is a fact that many Sikhs and non Sikhs around the world are not aware that the Sikh Empire known as Punjab, covered a huge area in the North/West of India. The Punjab used a very fascinating monetary system consisting of coins and tokens in metals of Gold, Silver and Copper.
The coins were produced in denominations of Mohur, Rupee and Paisa covering the major cities of Punjab. These days you can find coins for the cities of Amritsar, Kashmir and Anandghar which are still part of India. Coins were also minted in the cities of Lahore (Capital of the old Punjab), Multan, Peshawar which are in modern day Pakistan. Today distinguished collectors continue to study Sikh coins to attribute them to mints which were previously not known.
The sovereign Sikh rule by Maharaja Ranjit Singh began in 1801AD, the Sikhs had established control over Lahore in 1765AD itself and had started minting and circulating their own coins.
Despite the large and very interesting variety of coins which were circulated over a large territory for more than eighty years, the study of Sikh coins - the symbols of Khalsa Sovereignty, has mainly remained neglected.
Here is the link for the Sikh Coins Group (SCG) on Yahoo operated by Gurprit Singh Ji:-
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SikhCoins/ - The image below is courtesy of the SCG.
The coins were produced in denominations of Mohur, Rupee and Paisa covering the major cities of Punjab. These days you can find coins for the cities of Amritsar, Kashmir and Anandghar which are still part of India. Coins were also minted in the cities of Lahore (Capital of the old Punjab), Multan, Peshawar which are in modern day Pakistan. Today distinguished collectors continue to study Sikh coins to attribute them to mints which were previously not known.
The sovereign Sikh rule by Maharaja Ranjit Singh began in 1801AD, the Sikhs had established control over Lahore in 1765AD itself and had started minting and circulating their own coins.
Despite the large and very interesting variety of coins which were circulated over a large territory for more than eighty years, the study of Sikh coins - the symbols of Khalsa Sovereignty, has mainly remained neglected.
Here is the link for the Sikh Coins Group (SCG) on Yahoo operated by Gurprit Singh Ji:-
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SikhCoins/ - The image below is courtesy of the SCG.
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Comment by Parminder Singh on February 9, 2009 at 9:55pm -
NUMBER TABLE FOR DECYPHER OF SIKH COINS
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Comment by Dave Marl on August 26, 2010 at 3:26pm -
I have seen a few of these coins around, are they expensive?
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