Posted on: 25 January 2012

New Book:
The Revised Standard Reference Guide to Indian Paper Money
By Rezwan Razack and Kishore Jhunjhunwalla

This edition of “The Revised Standard Reference Guide to Indian Paper Money” is a result of ten years of dedicated and sincere research. Mr. Rezwan Razack owes this creation to the dynamic team including Mr. Kishore Jhunjhunwala, Ms. Rekha Chandrabhanu, Mr. Bazil Shaikh, Mr. Murali Thantry, Mr. Sanjay Mittal and Mr. Mahalingeshwar Athani.

“The Revised Standard Reference Guide to Indian Paper Money” presents to Numismatists and Banknote Collectors the fascinating world of Indian banknotes.

The history of Indian bank notes dates back to 1770, when the Bank of Hindostan, a private bank situated at Calcutta issued its first banknotes of India. However, the earliest banknote to survive is dated 1812 is by the Bank of Bengal. This book includes a comprehensive listing of all Indian banknotes since that date, and is a unique publication of its kind on the subject.

The Revised Standard Reference Guide to Indian Paper Money includes the notes of the semi-Government and Presidency Banks, which functioned until 1861. The Government of India undertook the issues of banknotes in 1861 and that is when all Early, Private and Presidency Banks banknote issues ceased. The Government of India issued banknotes, which were Uniface with the Portrait of Queen Victoria in 1861, and the underprint series from 1867.

Read more at Rezwan Razack's exhaustive blog on Indian Banknotes:
http://bit.ly/yGNPze


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Thank you sir..

Thanks to Naresh Narasimhan for suggesting this book!

Meet India's biggest collector of banknotes September 23, 2010 Most people know Rezwan Razack as a promoter of Prestige Constructions, a well-known real estate developer in south India. But there's something about Razack that few people know - he is India's biggest collector of banknotes, who claims to possess one, or more, of every variety of paper currency printed in India since 1770s, when private banks in India first began issuing banknotes. And now Razack is ready to throw open his exhaustive collection to interested viewers. Later this year, he will open a museum housing his collection in a 4,000 sq ft space in Prestige Shantiniketan, a large mixed-use development in Bangalore's Whitfield area. When it opens it will be the country's first museum of banknotes. (The RBI Monetary Museum and Dinesh Modi Numismatics Museum at the University of Mumbai's, Kalina complex have banknotes, but they have coins as well.) Read more: http://bit.ly/xcjsTK

This is without doubt the definitive book on Indian Paper Money today. Both the authors Rezwan Razack and Kishore Jhunjhunwalla are giants in the field.

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