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Description: | The Coins and Medals Department curates a collection of approximately 12,000 Indian items. These trace the history of colonialism in India, including the coinage of the East India Company and the subsequent Victorian coins.
The Fitzwilliam owns nearly 3,000 coins from the ÃPrincely StatesÃ' of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, coins minted by local maharajas. There are a similar number of ÃSultanateÃ' coins in the collection. Other Indian coins post-date the 1947 formation of the Republic of India, showing the Lion Capital of the Ashoka Pillar, the official emblem of the independent Republic. | Subjects: | Numismatics Coins | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 01223 332 923 | Telephone: | 01223 332 900 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:8378 | Go to resource |
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