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The company received the "Four Star Export House" certificate from the Joint Director of Foreign Trade, Government of India in June 2009. [10] The company opened its first branded retail jewellery store at Kolkata and Ahmedabad in October 2007. [citation needed] The company proposed an initial public offer of 14,269,831 equity shares in 2010. [11]
The India Government Mint, Kolkata was first established in 1757, [2] and was located in a building next to the Black Hole in the old fort – where the GPO (General Post Office) stands today. [3] It was called the Calcutta Mint and used to produce coins with the mint name Murshidabad .
Mumbai Mint has a state-of-the-art gold refining facility up to 999.9. Hyderabad Mint has electrolytic silver refining facility up to 999.9. Commemorative coins are made at Mumbai and Kolkata. Kolkata and Hyderabad have facilities for making medallions, too. The Noida mint was the first in the country to mint coins of stainless steel.
The major mints in the west responsible for issuing coins for the East India Company included Surat, Bombay (Mumbai or Munbai), and Ahmadabad. From 1621 till 1800, the English sent their precious metal bullion to the Surat mint, controlled by the Nawab, to be coined into local gold mohurs and silver rupees. As the Surat mint was unable to meet ...
The Padmanabhaswamy temple treasure is a collection of valuable objects including gold thrones, crowns, coins, statues and ornaments, diamonds and other precious stones. It was discovered in some of the subterranean vaults of the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, in the Indian state of Kerala, when five of its six (or possibly eight) vaults were opened on 27 June 2011.
New coins have been produced annually since then and they make up a valuable aspect of the Indian currency system. Today, circulating coins exist in denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10, and 20 rupees. All of these are produced by four mints located across India, [2] in Kolkata, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Noida.
The fair was held between 4 December 1883 and 10 March 1884. [3] and took place in the grounds of the Indian Museum and the Maidan.[1]There were contributions from Belgium, Ceylon, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Straits, Turkey and U.S.A. [4] The Australian colonies of New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria were all hosted on the Indian Museum side of the fair.
Following the establishment of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 1 April 1935, [22] the Currency Building served as RBI's first central office from 1935 to 1937. [16] [20] [23] The RBI was established to regulate the issuance of banknotes, maintain reserves to secure monetary stability, and operate India's currency and credit systems. [24]