One anna Coin issued by the East India Company in 1616

One anna Coin issued by the East India Company in 1616. The coin depicts a scene from the Hindu epic the Ramayana called the Sriramapattabhishekam, or the crowning of Sri Rama as King of Ayodhya.

An anna was a currency unit formerly used in british India and Pakistan, equal to ​1⁄16 of a rupee.It was subdivided into four (old) Paisa or twelve pies (thus there were 192 pies in a rupee). When the rupee was decimalised and subdivided into 100 (new) paise, one anna was therefore equivalent to 6.25 paise.