Republic of India, Rupee of Heaton Mint, Birmingham

When we outsourced the rupee. In the 1980s, the demand for 1-rupee coins grew sharply. Measures like introducing new 2-rupee and 5-rupee coins did not fully resolve the capacity issues at Indian mints. As a result, the manufacture of coins was outsourced contractually to a number of mints abroad. Coins struck abroad at these foreign mints bear their mint-marks. This rupee bears the letter ‘H’, off-center below the date, to indicate it was struck at the Heaton mint, in Birmingham, UK.