Postage stamps and postal history of Portuguese India

Just now I have visited a group called Postage stamps and postal history of Portuguese India on Facebook pages. I just liked the page and would like to introduce the same to you. The postal history of Portuguese India goes back to the earlier days of the colony. The postal history begins with communication between the Viceroy and the Court at Lisbon soon after the conquest of Old Goa by Afonso de Albuquerque in 1510. Letters, written in triplicate, were carried by separate ships because of the hazards of the voyage. Mail was carried by an overland route, as well. The early communications of Portuguese India had an official character and the correspondence is now to be found in museums and governmental and ecclesiastical archives. Regular mail is known to have been exchanged with Lisbon from 1825 on. Portuguese Indian postmarks are known from 1854, when a post office opened in Goa and an extraterritorial British East India Company post office opened in Damaun. A Portuguese Indian post office opened at Diu, also, in 1880. Before the Universal Postal Union was established in 1874, a country had to conclude a separate postal treaty with each other country with which it transacted international mail. Portugal had a postal convention with Great Britain, so mail was routed through Bombay and carried on British packets.

BRITISH INDIA COINS

BRITISH INDIA KING GEORGE VI 1939 ONE QUARTER ANNA COIN: King George VI in May 1937 and the first coin of India with his effigy were minted in 1938.The king is without a beard. It is a Bronze coin of King George VI series all the inscriptions are in English. It is a Bronze coin of 1939.Due to outbreak of 2nd world war was during his rule, cost of all metals used in coins such as gold, silver and copper increased very much even metallic cover was used from spent bullets and shells of 2nd world war to mint some coins so the size of coins reduced and to save the copper, coins were issued with a hole. This coin came from a time when India was ruled by the British, so you will see the British monarch on the front of the coin: George VI King Emperor.

BRITISH INDIA 1/12 ANNA 1917 GEORGE V KING EMPEROR COIN: This is ONE OF THE RAREST BRITISH INDIA 1/12 ANNA 1917 GEORGE V KING EMPEROR COIN. This coin came from a time when India was ruled by the British, so you will see the British monarch on the front of the coin: George V King Emperor. This is in a good condition. So bid with confident. India-British Rule, George V (1910-1936), 1/12 Anna, 1917, Regal Coinage, Mumbai (Bombay) Mint, GEORGE V KING-EMPEROR Crowned, decorated bust left 1/12 / ANNA / INDIA / 1917 / . Denomination, date and mint mark in five lines in dotted circle, surrounded by floral pattern Plain edge 17.5mm, 1.65g, Bronze, Thin Flan Mintage: 15,464,000 KM 509

BRITISH INDIA 1947 ONE ANNA KING GEORGE VI COIN: This is a Good BRITISH INDIA 1947 ONE ANNA KING GEORGE VI COIN VERY RARE. This coin came from a time when India was ruled by the British, so you will see the British monarch on the front of the coin: George VI King Emperor. This is in a good condition. So bid with confident.