Hyderabad Osmania / Hali sicca rupee
Hyderabad Osmania / Hali sicca rupee: a historical unit of account.
- Dates in use
- Introduction and ending not established
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The story
Contemporary report describes the Hyderabad Currency Act as granting Osmania rupees full legal tender, while British rupees could be used by contractual agreement. [1]
The paper-currency reserve separately accounts for 52, 660, 142 Osmania rupees versus British rupee notes and coin. [2]
RBI records Hyderabad Hali Sicca legal-tender cessation and replacement by Indianrupees on 1 April 1955. This is a legal-tender/absorption event; exact final account-unit extinction remains unresolved. [3]
Turning points
Account-unit observation
The 1909 Gazetteer's TableIII reports decade-average commodity prices explicitly per Hyderabad rupee. Its retrospective survey provides local price-unit evidence for 1881–1890, without fixing the unit's origin or proving every intervening accounting stage. [4]
Account-unit observation
The same table separately reports 1901 grain prices in Hyderabad rupees and distinguishes that unit from British rupees in its note. [5]
Sources and evidence
- United States Department of Commerce · Monetary Use of Silver in 1933 C1387 ↗
- United States Department of Commerce · Monetary Use of Silver in 1933 C1388 ↗
- Reserve Bank of India · Reserve Bank of India, Chronology of Events 1950–1960 C1389 ↗
- Government of India; articles drafted by Mirza Mehdy Khan · Imperial Gazetteer of India, Provincial Series: Hyderabad State (1909) C1764 ↗
- Government of India; articles drafted by Mirza Mehdy Khan · Imperial Gazetteer of India, Provincial Series: Hyderabad State (1909) C1765 ↗
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“Hyderabad Osmania / Hali sicca rupee.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/CUR-V26-HYDERABAD-RUPEE.html