1943 INDIA under BRITISH UK King GEORGE VI 1/2 Rupee Silver Indian Coin i55223

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1943 INDIA under BRITISH UK King GEORGE VI 1/2 Rupee Silver Indian Coin i55223:
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Item: i55223Authentic Coin of:

India under British Control
George VI -King of theUnited Kingdom, Irelandand British Dominions
Reigned: 11 December 1936 - 6 February 1952
1943 Silver 1/2 Rupee 24.1mm (5.83 grams) 0.500 Silver 0.0933 oz ASW
Reference: KM# 552
GEORGE VI KING EMPEROR, Crowned head of king George VI left.
Denomination and date within circle at center.You are offerding on the exact item pictured,provided with a Certificate of Authenticity and Lifetime Guarantee ofAuthenticity.

GeorgeVI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 - 6 February 1952) wasKing of the United Kingdom and theDominions of theBritish Commonwealth from 11 December 1936until his death. He was the lastEmperor of India and the firstHead of the Commonwealth.

As the second son ofKing George V, he was not expected to inheritthe throne and spent his early life in the shadow of his elder brother,Edward. He served in theRoyal Navy andRoyal Air Force during theFirst World War, and after it took on the usualround of public engagements. He marriedLady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923 and they hadtwo daughters,Elizabeth andMargaret.

George\'s elder brother ascended the throne as Edward VIII upon the death oftheir father in 1936. However, later that year Edward revealed his desire tomarry the divorced American socialiteWallis Simpson. British Prime MinisterStanley Baldwin advised Edward that forpolitical and religious reasons he could not marry a divorced woman and remainking.Edward abdicated in order to marry, and Georgeascended the throne as the third monarch of theHouse of Windsor.

During George\'s reign the break-up of theBritish Empire and its transition into theCommonwealth of Nations accelerated. Theparliament of theIrish Free Stateremoved direct mention of the monarch fromthe country\'s constitution on the day of hisaccession. Within three years, the Empire and Commonwealth, except the IrishFree State, was atwar withNazi Germany. In the next two years, war withItaly andJapan followed. ThoughBritain and its allies were ultimatelyvictorious, the United States and theSoviet Union rose as pre-eminentworld powers and the British Empire declined.After theindependence of India and Pakistan in 1947,George remained as king of both countries, but the title Emperor of Indiawas abandoned in June 1948. Irelandformally declared itself a republic and leftthe Commonwealth in 1949, and India became a republic within the Commonwealththe following year. George adopted the new title of Head of the Commonwealth. Hewas beset by health problems in the later years of his reign. His elderdaughter, Elizabeth, succeeded him.

India,officially the Republic of India, is a country inSouth Asia. It is theseventh-largest country by area, thesecond-most populous country (with over1.2 billion people), and the most populousdemocracy in the world. Bounded by theIndian Ocean on the south, theArabian Sea on the south-west, and th of Bengal on the south-east, it shares landborders withPakistan to the west;China,Nepal, andBhutan to the north-east; andMyanmar (Burma) andBangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean,India is in the vicinity ofSri Lanka and theMaldives; in addition, India\'sAndaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritimeborder withThailand andIndonesia.

Hometo the ancientIndus Valley Civilisation and a region ofhistoric trade routes and vast empires, theIndian subcontinent was identified with itscommercial and cultural wealth for much of its long history. Four religions-Hinduism,Buddhism,Jainism, andSikhism-originated here, andIslam arrived in the 1st millenniumCE and also shaped the region\'sdiverse culture. Gradually annexed by andbrought under the administration of theBritish East India Company from the early 18thcentury andadministered directly by the United Kingdomafter theIndian Rebellion of 1857, India became anindependent nation in 1947 after astruggle for independence that was marked bynon-violent resistance led byMahatma Gandhi.

Currently, theIndian economy is the world\'sseventh-largest by nominal GDP andthird-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP).Followingmarket-based economic reforms in 1991, Indiabecame one of thefastest-growing major economies; it isconsidered anewly industrialised country. However, itcontinues to face thechallenges ofpoverty,corruption,malnutrition andinadequate public healthcare. Anuclear weapons state and aregional power, it has thethird-largest standing army in the world andrankssixth in military expenditure among nations.India is afederalrepublic governed under aparliamentary system consisting of29 states and 7 union territories. India is apluralistic,multilingual, and a multi-ethnic society. It isalso home to a diversity ofwildlife in a variety ofprotected habitats.

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