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Archaic Period
Gandhara
Kuntala
Kuru
Panchala
Shakya
Shurasena
Surashtra

Archaic Period of Janapada coinage
Mauryan Period (322–185BCE)
Pandyan Kingdom100 - 1250 South
Satavahana 230BCE - 220CE south
Kuninda Kingdom
Sunga Period
 The Classical Age
 Bactria
 Indo-Greeks
 Indo-Parthians
Yuezhi
Indo-Scythian issue
Kushan Empire
 Paratarajas
Western Satraps
Kalabhras
Indo-Sassanians
 Chutu
Gupta Empire
Vakataka
Kidarite Kingdom
Naga Kingdom
Yaudheyas
 Indo-Hephthalites
Pallavas
 Rashtrakutas Empire 753 – 982
Chalukya Empire
Western Chalukyas 973 – 1189 south
 Pratihara
 Pala Empire
Rashtrakuta
Shahi
 Solanki
 Sena dynasty
Chola Empire
Kadambas of Goa, Hangal
Kakatiya dynasty1083 - 1323 South
 Hoysala Empire1026 – 1343 South
 Vijayanagara Empire 1336 – 1646 South
 Islamic Rule
 Mughal Dynasty
 Maratha Empire
Dependant and Independent states
Pudukkottai Kingdom
Madras Presidency
 Hyderabad
 Travancore
Gwalior State
Indore State
Colonial India
 

In the eighteen century the three Presidencies established by the British East India Company (Bengal, Bombay and Madras) each issued their own rupees together with fractions down to ⅛ and 1⁄16 rupee in silver. Madras also issued 2 rupees coins. Copper denominations were more varied. Bengal issued 1 pie, ½, 1 and 2 paise. Bombay issued 1 pie, ¼, ½, 1, 1½, 2 and 4 paise. In Madras, there were copper coins for 2, 4 pies, 1, 2 and 4 paisa, with the first two denominated as ½ and 1 dub or 1⁄96 and 1⁄48 rupee. Note that Madras also issued the Madras fanam until 1815.
All three Presidencies issued gold mohurs and fractions of mohurs, including 1⁄16, ⅛, ¼ and ½ in Bengal, 1⁄15 (a gold rupee) and ⅓ (pancia) in Bombay and ¼, ⅓ and ½ in Madras. In 1835, a single coinage for the EIC was introduced. consisting of copper 1⁄12, ¼ and ½ anna, silver ¼, ½ and 1 rupee and gold 1 and 2 mohursfollowed by silver 2 annasa nd by copper ½ pice .

In 1862, coins were introduced which are referred to as Regal issues.in. Denominations of 1⁄12 anna, ½ pice, ¼ and ½ anna (all in copper), 2 annas, ¼, ½ and 1 rupee (silver) and 5 and 10 rupees and 1 mohur (gold).
In the nineteen century bronze replaced copper fand a cupro-nickel 1 anna , cupro-nickel 2, 4 and 8 annas were introduced,. Also the Bombay mint struck gold sovereigns and 15 rupee coins identical in size to the sovereigns.

In the early forties  The 1⁄12 anna and ½ pice ceased production, the ¼ anna was changed to a bronze, holed coin, cupro-nickel and nickel-brass ½ anna coins were introduced, nickel-brass was used to produce some 1 and 2 annas coins, and the composition of the silver coins was reduced from 91.7% to 50%. The last of the regal issues were cupro-nickel ¼, ½ and 1 rupee pieces

India’s first coins after independence were issued in the fifties. They were 1 pice, ½, 1 and 2 annas, ¼, ½ and 1 rupee denominations. The sizes and compositions were the same as the final Regal issues, except for the 1 pice, which was bronze but not holed.  The first decimal issues were 1, 2, 5, 10, 25 and 50 naye paise and 1 rupee. The 1 naya paisa was bronze, the 2, 5 and 10 naye paise were cupro-nickel and the 25 and 50 naye paise and 1 rupee were nickel. In the sixties the word naya(e) was removed from all the coins.and aluminium 1, 2, 3, 5 and 10 paise were introduced. Ifollowed by nickel-brass 20 paise, later replaced by aluminium coins  In the seventies cupro-nickel replaced nickel in the 25 and 50 paise and the 1 rupee. In the eighties cupro-nickel 2 rupees coins and stainless steel 10, 25 and 50 paise were introduced, followed by 1 rupee and 5 rupee coin . The coins today in circulation are 25 and 50 paise, 1, 2 and 5 rupees. 5, 10, and 20 paise .



Maldivian coins
In the sixties Sultan Mohamed Fareed I issued  1, 2, 5, 10, 25 and 50 laari. using the National Emblem on the reverse side with the traditional title of the state and all the previously traded coinswere withdrawn from circulation.

The newly established Maldives Monetary Authority (MMA), introduced the 1 rufiyaa coin on 1983. made from steel clad copper nickel , a new series of coins , which did not include the 2 laari denomination., followed by  2 rufiyaa coins were introduced.