one rupee British India King George V 1918 silver coin

My collection is more on silver coin and straits settlements coin. One of them is this one rupee British India King George V 1918 silver coin. I bought this coin this year in penang. I don't know much about this coin until I Google it recently. This coin history making them more interesting.

This indian rupee is also called "pig rupee". Why? The first year of issue (1911) has an elephant on the Kings robe that was considered to resemble a pig, thus the variety is known as the "pig rupee" (Type I). This variant is also on the 1/2 Rupee, the 1/4 Rupee, the 2 Annas and the 1/4 Anna coins. The elephant figure was redesigned (Type II) and this design was used on all issues starting in 1912.

Mine is aType II with a new design of elephant and mint in bombay. The Rupee was minted in both Calcutta and Bombay. There is no mint mark for Calcutta. The Bombay issues have a small dot on the reverse under the ornate near the bottom of the coin (see illustration).

You can read more about this coin story from this website i found via google:
http://jfcampbell.us/india/george5/george5.htm

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Netherlands indies coin: First coinage

one of my hobby is looking for an old coin. Some of them you can buy at a cheap price as long as you know where to look. I bought this coin in penang this year. The condition of this Netherlands indies coin: First coinage ain't very good but still a good collection for me.

The Netherlands Indies is a group of four large and some 3,000 small islands between southeast Asia and Australia. The home of earlier Buddhist and Hindu cultures, it became Islamic after the 12th century and was taken over by the Dutch in the 17th century. Following Japanese occupation during World War II, it became the independent republic of Indonesia in 1945. Capital: Batavia (now Jakarta).

Monetary System
100 cents (sen) = 1 gulden (roepiah)

Source:
A Catalog of Modern World Coins 1850-1964 by R.S Yeoman

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