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The Coin Galleries: Bengal Presidency. The East India Company established its first factory in the Bengal region in 1633. Several factories were established in Orissa, Bengal and Bihar, and initial;ly they were all administered from Madras. In 1698, the Company received rights over Calcutta, a fort was constructed there (Fort William), and in ...
The Arcot Rupees were discontinued at Calcutta about 1777. Coins of Bengal Presidency were produced from ca. 1642 to 1835. The Bengal Presidency originally comprising east and west Bengal, was a colonial region of the British Empire in South-Asia and beyond it.
Bengal Presidency became independent and coins were minted at Calcutta. The early coinage was struck in the names of Mughal Emperor Alamgir II, and later Shah Alam II. The Calcutta mint started to mint Murshidabad rupees at the very end of 1760 or, early in 1761. Later an agreement was reached to produce coins in the name of Shah Alam II.
Silver rupee coins from the Bengal Presidency, struck in the name of Shah Alam II, minted in Calcutta. The Bengal Presidency had the largest gross domestic product in British India. [55] The first British colonial banks in the Indian subcontinent were founded in Bengal.
y Coinages5.1 Do you knowDescriptionImageSourceEast India Company issued 3 types of Coinages f. r its three Presidencies of Bombay, Madras and Bengal. Bombay Presidency was the first to issue English style coinage from the Bombay Mint in 1672 with silver coins called Anglinas, copp.
Book Review. The Coinage of the Hon. East India Company: Part I – The Coins of the Bengal Presidency, by Dr Paul Stevens, London 2012, published by AH Baldwin & Sons Ltd; case-bound, 61⁄2 x 93⁄4 ins. (140 x 250 mm), pp 564, illustrated throughout. ISBN 978-0-906919-25-5.
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Oct 25, 2012 · It explores the coins and mints of the Bengal Presidency from 1757, when the EIC first acquired the right to mint coins there, until 1835, when a uniform coinage was introduced into British India. Divided into ten chapters, each one deals with a different time or location of the coinage.
