Want List for Lanka Coin Collection as of 2000-May-29 19th Century British Colonial coins including British India Looking for light toned VG (dump) to VF (coin) (U.S. grade) suitable for scanning for a website. I probably can't afford the higher grades for the more expensive coins Ceylon British Colonial Coins (pre 1870) KM 64 Cu Elephant Dump 1/24 Rixdollar 1801 Heavy : KM 65 Cu Elephant Dump 1/12 Rixdollar 1801 Heavy : KM 63 Cu Dump Coinage 1/48 Rixdollar 1811-1816 : KM 65 Cu Dump Coinage 1/12 Rixdollar 1811-1816 : 1811 G+ 1813 G- KM 72 Cu 1/4 pice 1/256 Rixdollar 1813 : rare KM 86 Ag Madras Arcot-CM crown rupee ND(1823) : Madras Presidency - Islamic Arcot Mint - Alamgir II KM410 Ag Lotus IndCord milling Rupee 1812-1817 Madras : KM427 Ag Rose vertical milling Rupee 1823-1825 Calcutta: KM436 Ag Rose-Cresent vertical Rupee 1830-1835 Calcutta: Great Britain KM724 Cu William IV 1/2 Farthing 1837 : 1837 VG KM707 Cu William IV one Penny 1837 :#1831 VF ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes The Islamic years (Al Hijra) are counted from 622 July 20 (Gregorian) i.e. The lunar month or Synodic period of the Moon is 29.53059 days The 30 years cycle of 12 lunar months is 10631 days or 354.367 days per year or longer by about 3 years per century. Note zero at unity: 622.55AD = 1 AH AD = 622.55 + 0.970227*(AH-1) AH = 1.0 + (AD-622.55)*1.03069 1500 AD = 905 AH; 1600 AD = 1008 AH; 1700 AD = 1112 AH; 1800 AD = 1215 AH; 1900 AD = 1318 AH; 2000 AD = 1421 AH A reasonable subset of these Types of Islamic Indian coins are the 10 Full rupees (have 6+*) and one each of the fractionals distributed among the mints and mill types of which I now have a reasonable representation. Looking for light toned VF/VF+ (U.S. grade)suitable for scaning for a website. Many of these coins have "shroff marks" resulting from tests of purity of coin. A few minor marks" are OK, but too many or prominent marked coins are not OK. Lowsley cites the Royal Mint issue of 19th century coins to Ceylon in the years Metal and total value in Pounds Sterling given within () 1822(Ag30K) 1828(Cu5K) 1830(Cu5K) 1833(Cu1K) 1837(Cu2K) 1839(Ag2K,Cu3K) 1842(Ag5K,Cu5K) 1844(Cu5K) 1854(Cu3K) 1857(Cu6K) 1859(Cu6K) Lowsley cites years of British copper coins he found in 1890 Ceylon . indicates a coin listed in Krause and last digit of year for Lowsley George William Victoria 18-222223 3333333 33444444444455555555556666666666 567890 1234567 89012345678901234567890123456789 One Penny .67 . . 7 . 3.567.. 1 .456..9.......... 1/2 Penny .67 . 4 7 8 1 3456.. .23.56.89.......... One Farthing 567890 . 4..7 .9.1.3.567...1.3.56.89.......... 1/2 Farthing 8 0 7 9 234 7 1234 6 1/4 Farthing 9 123 Lowsley cites years of Indian silver coins he found in 1892 Ceylon . indicates a coin listed in Krause and last digit of year for Lowsley 18-777777888888888899 456789012345678901 One Rupee 1835 1840 1862 ..67890...45678901 1/2 Rupee 1835 1840 . ..6.........6789.. 1/4 Rupee 1835 1840 . 45.......34567890. 1/8 Rupee 1841 1862 4.......2.4.67890.