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 'do...