Synopsis This book has been specially designed for budding collectors and dealers in coins who wish to acquire basic but authentic information about their hobby/occupation. For reasons of convenience and economy, coverage is restricted to machine-made uniform coinage of the East India Company in India in 1835 A.D. to the present day, excluding the innumerable coins issued by the various autonomous princely states about a hundred. About four hundred coins have been illustrated in colour in their actual size and divided into periods and essential information provided in convenient capsule form.