Description

Attribution to mints of this issue is based on the master tools employed to make the working dies. In this case there is a small double leaf in the scroll below the centre numerals of the date, this is called Type I and is attributed to the Bombay mint. Issues from the Calcutta mint have a single large leaf at that point on the scroll, called Type II. Bombay ceased production of this denomination in 1890.

Victoria (1819–1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she adopted the additional title of Empress of India. She inherited the throne at the age of 18, after her father's three elder brothers had all died, leaving no surviving legitimate children. Victoria married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in 1840. Their nine children married into royal and noble families across the continent, tying them together and earning her the sobriquet "the grandmother of Europe". Her reign of 63 years and seven months is known as the Victorian era and was longer than that of any of her predecessors. It was a period of industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire.