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I am going to explain about the Indian mint houses, when the mint houses are established and their mint marks.
first, we need to know what are mint houses?
Mint house is a place where the coins are minted. these coin minting place is called as mint house.

▬ Contents of this video Time Stamps ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 - Intro
0:11 - What are mint houses
0:20 - Total Mint Houses Present in India and Location
0:44 - Mumbai Mint House and Mumbai Coins Mint Mark
1:32 - Kolkata Mint House and Kolkata Coins Mint Mark
2:11 - Hyderabad Mint House and Hyderabad Coins Mint Mark
3:04 - Noida Mint House and Noida Coins Mint Mark
3:40 - Conclusion


0:00 - in this video, I am going to explain about the Indian mint houses, when the mint houses are established and their mint marks.

0:11 - first, we need to know what are mint houses?
Mint house is a place where the coins are minted. these coin minting place is called as mint house.

0:20 - In India we have 4 mint houses.
First - Mumbai Mint house
Second - Hyderabad Mint house
Third - Kolkata Mint House
and the fourth - Noida mint house

0:44 - Mumbai mint house
you can see here this is the image of Mumbai mint house
The Present Mumbai mint house was established in the year 1824 - 1830
Mumbai mint house Mint mark is diamond mint mark.
you can see here in the coin, below the year you can clearly see the diamond shape mint mark.
Diamond shape mint mark on the coin represents the Mumbai mint house,
For some coins u can see the B and M mint mark those are proof set coins, about proof set coins i will create a separate video their u can know clear details about proof set coins.
so here u need to understand for circulation coins Mumbai mint house mint mark is Diamond mint mark.

1:32 - Kolkata mint house.
you can see here this is the image of Kolkata mint house
Kolkata mint house was established in the year 1759-60.
Later modified and reconstructed in the year 1942-1952, Due to second world war there was delay so it took 10 years for modification and re construction.
Kolkata mint house Mint there is no mint mark (plain).
u can see here in the coin, below the year you can clearly see the plain area without any mint mark.
so here u need to understand for Kolkata mint house there is no mint mark.

2:11 - Hyderabad Mint House
you can see here this is the image of Hyderabad mint house
Hyderabad mint house was established in the year 1803. When this was established Hyderabad mint house is the world’s largest mint house.
But later mint house place was changed and reconstructed in the year 1997.
Hyderabad mint house Mint mark is Star mint mark.
u can see here in the coin, below the year you can clearly see the Star shape mint mark.
you can also find some Hyderabad mint coins having Split Diamond and hole in diamond mint mark this 2 are rare mint marks.
so here u need to understand for circulation coins Hyderabad mint house mint mark is Star mint mark.


3:04 - Then the Final Noida Mint house.
you can see here