Evidence coverage: 1881–1955. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
Regional Hyderabad rupee system, distinct in law, contracts and reserve accounts from British/Indian rupees; group note and coin changes within identity pending older local review.
No distinct predecessor currency is established in the loaded view.
Contemporary report describes the Hyderabad Currency Act as granting Osmania rupees full legal tender, while British rupees could be used by contractual agreement.
Sources and qualifications →The paper-currency reserve separately accounts for 52,660,142 Osmania rupees versus British rupee notes and coin.
Sources and qualifications →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.
Sources and qualifications →The1909 Gazetteer's TableIII reports decade-average commodity prices explicitly per Hyderabad rupee. Its retrospective survey provides local price-unit evidence for1881–1890, without fixing the unit's origin or proving every intervening accounting stage.
Sources and qualifications →The same table separately reports1901 grain prices in Hyderabad rupees and distinguishes that unit from British rupees in its note.
Sources and qualifications →Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
Contemporary report describes the Hyderabad Currency Act as granting Osmania rupees full legal tender, while British rupees could be used by contractual agreement.
C1387The paper-currency reserve separately accounts for 52,660,142 Osmania rupees versus British rupee notes and coin.
C1388RBI 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.
C1389The1909 Gazetteer's TableIII reports decade-average commodity prices explicitly per Hyderabad rupee. Its retrospective survey provides local price-unit evidence for1881–1890, without fixing the unit's origin or proving every intervening accounting stage.
C1764The same table separately reports1901 grain prices in Hyderabad rupees and distinguishes that unit from British rupees in its note.
C1765Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan. 1855coin establishment reported by Bratter is not used as unit founding date. Earlier Halli silver coins and later Hali spelling not split without unit evidence; older full continuity remains qualified.
Contemporary report describes the Hyderabad Currency Act as granting Osmania rupees full legal tender, while British rupees could be used by contractual agreement.
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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
The paper-currency reserve separately accounts for 52,660,142 Osmania rupees versus British rupee notes and coin.
printed70
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
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.
1April1955entry
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Original notification not inspected.
Hyderabad local rupees were replaced by Indianrupees; the regional branch joins an already existing Indianunit. Does not assert that Indianrupee originated 1955.
1April1955entry
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Original notification not inspected.
The1909 Gazetteer's TableIII reports decade-average commodity prices explicitly per Hyderabad rupee. Its retrospective survey provides local price-unit evidence for1881–1890, without fixing the unit's origin or proving every intervening accounting stage.
p84 TableIII; p36 survey caveat
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Downloaded and read archive OCR.
The same table separately reports1901 grain prices in Hyderabad rupees and distinguishes that unit from British rupees in its note.
p84 TableIII and note
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Downloaded and read archive OCR.