Four Dots One Rupee of King Edward VII in 1904
King Edward VII, elder son of Queen Victoria ascended the throne after her death on 1901. The Edward VII series of coins of India are dated1903-1910. The Rupee of King Edward VII was minted in both Calcutta and Bombay. There was no mint mark for Calcutta, but the Bombay issues had a small incuse "B" (the 1903 Rupee also had a raised "B" variety). The incuse "B" mint mark is too small to see, but there is a second, more prominent mark, a "dot" on the stem of the lotus-bud (lower right on reverse). According to the book of D. Chakravarty, "Coins of India", this was intentional. He said, "Since the 'dot' itself was found adequate to distinguish the products of the mint, and there was no need to have a conspicuous mint-mark, as an incuse 'B', from 1906 onward there was apparently an attempt to erase the 'B', but not very successfully." Various traces of the 'B' may be seen but use the 'dot' ...