OCT. — DEC. 1856.] Xotcs on Indian Cunencies. 
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called also Quenow Rupee, because intended to be equivalent to 
that of the Oude Government, and struck both at Ferruckabad and 
Delhi, but the Delhi Mint was never employed to any great extent. 
For a long time back, the Calcutta Sicca Rupee had circulated in 
Bengal, Behar, and Orissa — the Benares Rupee was confined 
to the province of Benares, and the Ferruckabad Rupee to all 
ceded and conquered districts, except Cuttack and the acquisiti- 
ons east of Bengal, into which the Calcutta Rupee had been in- 
troduced. It was also stated that ^he standard of the Calcutta 
Sicca Rupee and Ferruckabad "Rupees was the same, being alloy 
— the former weighing 192 grains with 176 grains pure silver, the 
latter weighing 180 graLls with 165 grains pure silver, omitting 
fractions — and that at Madras^and Bombay the rupee was similar 
to the Ferruckabad — and that there was a mint at Saugor estab- 
lished for the temporary purpose of converting local currencies in- 
to Ferruckabad Rupees. It was likewise stated that a copper coin 
passes through the Bengal territories at the rate of 64 to a Rupee, 
but is legal tender only for the fractional parts of that coin — and 
that because the market value of gold relatively to silver was great- 
er than the mint value, therefore gold had ceased to circulate. Also 
that the Bengal gold mohur weighs 204-710 grains of which 187.651 
is fine gold — and that the Madras gold Rupee is of the same weight 
and standard as the silver, viz. 180 grains — and that at both Presi- 
dencies the relative value of gold to silver is 15 to 1 — and that there 
were three mints at Bombay, one at the Presidency, one at Trivat 
and one at Broach, and that Madras had one mint. 
In 1818, the Bengal Government added to the 
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weight of the Rupee, leaving the quantity of silver 
the same and increasing the weight by alloy, the reason given was 
that the Rupee being much purer than other coins, and more espe- 
cially than the Spanish Dollar of which the import into Calcutta 
was large, a considerable expense was incurred in refining, and some 
delay occasioned. 
In 1819, the currency was changed in Madras from Pagodas to 
Rupees, in which former coin all accounts had previously been 
kept, and the Rupee was rated in the accounts rendered to Parlia- 
