Five Worn Tribal Silver Coin necklace. All the millions of the many “tribes” of India always appreciated the value and the worth of the Silver Rupee coinage of the British East India Company, minted in high Silver content from the mid 1700s, especially when in 1835 a properly regulated mint producing British-designed Silver coinage was built in Calcutta, and the coinage became uniform throughout the land.
The Silver coin system had four denominations: Rupee, Half Rupee, Quarter Rupee and Two Anna, the Two Anna coin being 1/8th of a Rupee.
In above necklace all five of the coins are Quarter Rupee, all dating from the period of the First World War. The entire Silver coinage range was high Silver content, 91.6% Silver content.