52 E. Thurston — History of the Hast India Company Coinage. [No. 1, 
Uhle; — Lexicon ceyyptiaco — latinwm — Oxford 1775 in 4°; le mannscrit de 
cet ouvrag’e considerable a ete revu par Scholtz, etannote par Woide qui 
le fait paraitre au frais de l’Universite d’Oxford. Chaque mot copte est 
suivi de son equivalent en grec et en latin, rnais sans autre explication 
(voy. Oriental und exeges. Biblioth. de Michaelis, 1. 1 , p. 202, et suivi, et 
Recherches sur VHgypte par Quatremere) ; — un grand nombre d’articleS 
dans les publications periodiques. Parmi les ouvrages inedits de ce 
savant, il faut citer un Dictionnaire armenien qui lui avait coute de 
longues recherches ; un Dictionnaire slavon. et un Dictionnaire syriaque. 
M. N. en Nouv. Biographie generate, 1866. 
Note on the History of the Hast India Company Coinage 
from 1753-1835. — By Edgar Thurston. 
When I was engaged in collecting material for my 1 History of the 
Coinage of tbe Territories of the East India Company in the Indian 
Peninsula, and Catalogue of the coins in the Madras Museum,’* the 
records of the Madras Mint were placed at my disposal by the Madras 
Government, and I expressed a hope that some one would eventually 
explore the archives of the Calcutta and Bombay Mints with a view 
to clearing up many obscure points in the history of the coinage of the 
Company, which constitutes a complicated branch of modern numis- 
matics. 
My head-quarters having, by the fortune of service, been tem- 
porarily transferred from Madras to Calcutta, the opportunity has been 
taken advantage of to examine the records of the Calcutta Mint ; and 
facilities for carrying out the research in my spare moments were 
courteously given to me by Colonel Baird, P. R. S., Master of the Mint, 
to whom I have to express my great indebtedness. 
The Calcutta Mint Committee Proceedings which are preserved in 
the Calcutta Mint, commence with the year 1792 (more than thirty years 
after the establishment of the Calcutta Mint), and are, with very few 
exceptions, continuous to 1835, where my investigations ceased, as the 
history of the Company’s coinage after that year, in which a general 
British currency was established, is no longer veiled in doubt and 
obscurity. 
Of the Calcutta Mint Records from the establishment of the 
Mint in 1760 to 1792, I have been unable to find any trace, and this 
is the more to be regretted, since the history of the coinage during this 
* Madras Government Press, 1890. 
