Ahead of Akshaya Tritiya festival, gold and silver refiner MMTC Pamp on Friday launched new gold coin ‘Tola’ of 11.6639 grams and said it would mint 0.5 million pieces of these coins in the current fiscal.
The ‘Tola’ is an octagonal shaped coin with distinctive knurled edges and an intricate finish with 999.9 pure gold.
It has the design of a traditional weighing balance and the reverse features ‘potli’ containing one hundred ratti seeds.