Indian anna - Revision history

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	==Notation==		==Notation==
	The first number is the number of rupees, the second is the number of annas (1/16), the third is the number of ~~paise~~ (1/64), and the fourth is the number of pies (1/192). Examples are below.		The first number is the number of rupees, the second is the number of annas (1/16), the third is the number of paisas (1/64), and the fourth is the number of pies (1/192). Examples are below.

	*Rs 1/15/3/2 = Rs 1.9947		*{{INR}}1-15-3-2 = {{INR}}1.9947
	*Rs 1/8/3 = Rs 1.546		*{{INR}}1-8-3 = {{INR}}1.546
	*Rs 1/4 = Rs 1.25		*{{INR}}1-4 = {{INR}}1.25

	==Coins==		==Coins==
	<gallery mode="packed" heights="100px">		<gallery mode="packed" heights="100px">
			File:Reverse of the copper One Twelfth Anna.jpg\|One Twelfth Anna (1/12 Anna) coin of 1903
	File:Obverse of the 1906 One Quarter Anna of India portraying the bust of Edward VII.jpg\|Obverse of the 1906 quarter anna, with the bust of [[Edward VII]]		File:Obverse of the 1906 One Quarter Anna of India portraying the bust of Edward VII.jpg\|Obverse of the 1906 quarter anna, with the bust of [[Edward VII]]
	File:2 Indian anna (1919).jpg\|2 Indian ~~anna~~ (1919).		File:2 Indian anna (1919).jpg\|2 Indian annas (1919).
	File:Ana Naya Paisa Conversion Table.jpg\|Annas - Paisa Conversion Table.		File:Ana Naya Paisa Conversion Table.jpg\|Annas - Paisa Conversion Table.
	Image: East India Company - Quarter Anna 1835.JPG\|An 1835 quarter anna.		Image: East India Company - Quarter Anna 1835.JPG\|An 1835 quarter anna.
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	==See also==		==See also==
	{{Portal\|Money}}		{{Portal\|Money\|Numismatics}}
	*[[Indian coinage]]		*[[Indian coinage]]
	*[[British Indian coins]]		*[[British Indian coins]]

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Coins

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	==Coins==		==Coins==
	<gallery mode="packed" heights="100px">		<gallery mode="packed" heights="100px">
			File:Obverse of the 1906 One Quarter Anna of India portraying the bust of Edward VII.jpg\|Obverse of the 1906 quarter anna, with the bust of [[Edward VII]]
	File:2 Indian anna (1919).jpg\|2 Indian anna (1919).		File:2 Indian anna (1919).jpg\|2 Indian anna (1919).
	File:Ana Naya Paisa Conversion Table.jpg\|Annas - Paisa Conversion Table.		File:Ana Naya Paisa Conversion Table.jpg\|Annas - Paisa Conversion Table.
	Image: East India Company - Quarter Anna 1835.JPG\|An 1835 quarter ~~ānā~~.		Image: East India Company - Quarter Anna 1835.JPG\|An 1835 quarter anna.
	</gallery>		</gallery>

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{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=November 2018}}
{{One source|date=November 2018}}
{{Coin image box 1 double
|header = 1 Indian anna
|image = File:1 Indian Anna.jpg
|caption_left = '''Obverse''': Crowned [[Bust (sculpture)|bust]] of [[George VI]], with lettering ''George VI King Emperor''.
|caption_right = '''Reverse''': Year of minting and face value in numeral, English, Urdu, Bengali, Telugu and Devanagari scripts.
|width = 250
|footer = 125,548,000 coins minted (1918 to 1940) in [[copper-nickel]]
|position = right
|margin = 0
}}

{{Coin image box 1 double
| header = One Quarter anna.
| image = File:One Quarter anna (1933).jpg
| caption_left = '''Obverse''': [[George V|King George V]] crowned head surrounded by lettering "GEORGE V KING EMPEROR" at the periphery.
| caption_right = '''Reverse''': Denomination and year surrounded by wreath. Lettering "ONE QUARTER ANNA INDIA 1933".
| width = 250
| footer = 1,681,276,200 coins minted from 1912 to 1936.
| position = right
| margin = 0
}}

An '''anna''' (or '''ānna''') was a [[currency]] unit formerly used in [[British India]], equal to {{frac|16}} of a [[rupee]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Republic India Coinage|url=http://www.rbi.org.in/currency/museum/c-rep.html}}Accessed 14 July 2011.</ref> It was subdivided into four (old) [[Paisa]] or twelve [[Pie (Indian coin)|pie]]s (thus there were 192 pies in a rupee). When the rupee was decimalised and subdivided into 100 (new) [[Indian paisa|paise]], one anna was therefore equivalent to 6.25 [[Indian paisa|paise]]. The anna was [[Legal tender#Demonetization|demonetised]] as a currency unit when India [[Decimalisation|decimalised]] its currency in 1957, followed by Pakistan in 1961. It was replaced by the 5-paise coin, which was itself discontinued in 1994 and demonetised in 2011. The term anna is frequently used to express a fraction of {{frac|16}}.

There was a coin of one anna, and also half-anna coins of copper and two-anna pieces of silver.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/mc_british_QueenVictoria.aspx|title=British India Coinage - Coins of Queen Victoria|publisher=Reserve Bank of India}}</ref> With the rupee having been valued to 1s 6d<ref>Schedule of Par Values, Currencies of Metropolitan Areas, The Statesman's Year Book 1947, pg xxiii, Macmillan & Co</ref> and weighing 180 grains as a 916.66 fine silver coin,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/mc_british.aspx|title= British India Coinage|publisher=Reserve Bank of India}}</ref> the anna was equivalent to 9/8 d. Hence the 2 anna silver coins were of low weight (22.5 grains = 1.46 g).

Anna-denominated postage stamps were issued during the [[British Raj]] by the government of British India as well as by several [[princely states]], and after independence until decimalisation of the currency by India and Pakistan.

==Notation==
The first number is the number of rupees, the second is the number of annas (1/16), the third is the number of paise (1/64), and the fourth is the number of pies (1/192). Examples are below.

*Rs 1/15/3/2 = Rs 1.9947
*Rs 1/8/3 = Rs 1.546
*Rs 1/4 = Rs 1.25

==Coins==
<gallery mode="packed" heights="100px">
File:2 Indian anna (1919).jpg|2 Indian anna (1919).
File:Ana Naya Paisa Conversion Table.jpg|Annas - Paisa Conversion Table.
Image: East India Company - Quarter Anna 1835.JPG|An 1835 quarter ānā.
</gallery>

== Stamps ==
<gallery mode="packed" heights="100px">
File:1865ca Half India SG54 boxN°2.jpg | Half anna stamp of British India
File:A stamp.JPG | One anna stamp of Alwar
File:307-Railway-Centenary-India-Stamp-1953.jpg | Two anna stamp of independent India
File:Pakistan1948-1952.jpg | One anna and one and a half anna stamps of independent Pakistan
</gallery>

==See also==
{{Portal|Money}}
*[[Indian coinage]]
*[[British Indian coins]]
*[[History of the rupee]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Commons category|Anna (coins)}}
{{Indian currency}}
{{Rupee}}

[[Category:Historical currencies of India]]
[[Category:Coins of India]]