Rupee Coin - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: rupee coinRupee coin
Rupee coin, means rupees which are legal tender in India under the provisions of the Indian Coinage Act, 1906 (3 of 1906). [Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (2 of 1934), s. 2 (d)]...
Sicca rupee
Sicca rupee, originally a newly coined rupee, accepted at a higher value than those worn by use; latterly, a rupee coined under the Government of Bengal from 1793, and legally current till 1836, of a greater weight than the (India) Company's rupee, Oxf. Dict....
Rupee
Rupee, a silver coin rated at 2s. for the current, and 2s. 3d. for the Bombay, rupee.The value, however, fluctuates. And see SICCA RUPEE....
Rupee
A silver coin and money of account in the East Indies...
Coin
Coin [fr. coign, Fr.; cuneus, Lat., a wedge], a piece of metal stamped with certain marks and made current at a certain value. The coining of money is in all states the prerogative of the sovereign power; and, as money is the medium of commerce, it is the Crown's prerogative and monopoly, as arbiter of domestic commerce, to give it authority or make it current.By the (English) Coinage Offences Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 99), it was made a felony to counter-feit coin; to colour or gild, so as to make a resemblance to gold or silver coin; to impair or lighten coin; to have in unlawful possession filings or clippings produced by impairing or lightening coin; to buy or sell or import or utter counterfeit coin. There were numerous other provisions tending to the suppression of the manufacturing, import in and uttering of counterfeit coin. See the (English) Counterfeit Currency (Convention) Act, 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 25), an Act to enable effect to be given to an International Convention...
Indian coin
Indian coin, referred. (Penal Code, 1860, s. 230)Indian coin is metal stamped and issued by the authority of the Government of India in order to be so used as money; and metal which has been so stamped and issued shall continue to be Indian coin for the purposes of Chapter XII; notwithstand-ing that it may have ceased to be used as money....
Maundy coins
Silver coins or money of the nominal value of 1d 2d 3d and 4d struck annually for the Maundy alms...
VerbarMaasha
An East Indian coin of about one tenth of the weight of a rupee...
Mohur
A British Indian gold coin of the value of fifteen silver rupees or 721 in 1913...
VerbarSicca
A seal a coining die used adjectively to designate the silver currency of the Mogul emperors or the Indian rupee of 192 grains...
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