Silver Year 1900 Victoria coin, 92% Sterling Silver content, minted in India under the British government, a 2-Anna coin, the smallest of the four high-Silver-content coins minted by the British in India that constituted the currency pillar of the whole British India economy, valued and appreciated across the entire sub-continent and beyond, traded, hoarded and often transmuted into items of jewellery, valuable and prestigious, for everyone knew just exactly the value of these high-Silver-content coins.
This 2 Anna coin coin weighed 1.46grams at mint; the 4 Anna coin weighed double that, the 8 Anna, the half Rupee, weighed double that again, and the full Rupee, 16 Anna, weighed 11.53grams; everyone knew the weights and everyone knew the Silver content of these coins. From the early 1800s to the depreciation of the Silver content of these coins in the 1930s, the weights and the Silver content remained unchanged.
The above Silver 2-Anna coin, minted in the year 1900 in Bombay or Madras or Calcutta, has Victoria styled as “Empress”. It would have been made into a pendant by Rajasthani tribals in the early 1900s and would have been one of dozens given the same treatment and used as adornments of a head scarf, an obvious sign of wealth and high status.