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iiig propositions were, among others, made by the Calcutta mint Com- 
mittee, with a view to drawing the old and light coins into the mints, 
and establishing the general currency of the sikka rupee : — 
I. That after April 10th, 1794, only the san 19 sikka rupees he 
received at the public treasuries, or issued therefrom ; 
II. That public notice be given that Government, with a view 
to enabling individuals to get their old coin or bullion converted into 
sikka rupees without delay, have established mints at Dacca, Patna 
and Murshidabad in addition to the mint at Calcutta ; 
III. That the rupees coined at Dacca, Patna and Murshidabad, 
be made precisely of the same shape, weight and standard as the 
19 san sikka rupees coined at Calcutta, in order that the rupees struck 
at the several mints might not be recognisable from each other, and 
might be received and paid indiscriminately ; 
IY. That the dies be made of the same size as the coin, and that 
the coins be milled ; 
Y. That the hijrah year be omitted, as the insertion of it, by 
showing the year in which the rupees were struck, would defeat the 
object of Government in continuing the 19th san upon the coins. 
The earliest weekly account of the new Dacca mint which I have 
Dacca. been able to find, is dated 11th August, 1792, 
on which day the Assay Master also submitted 
to the Calcutta Mint Committee the accounts of the preceding three 
months, and promised in future to forward a weekly account. 
On 23rd October, 1792, the Assay Master of the Murshidabad mint 
Murshidabad. 
reported that he was erecting workshops, etc., 
at the Dutch Factory, and hoped to begin coin- 
ing by the end of the following week. The opening of the mint was 
announced to the Governor General in a letter dated December 
1792. 
1793.- 
Patna. 
On 24th February, 1793, the Assay Master of the Patna 
mint announced to the Calcutta Mint Committee 
that everything would be ready by the end of 
the month for the coining of five lacs monthly. 
In 1793 a regulation* was passed, by which the gold and silver 
Bengal. coin in Berl S' al > Bihar, and Orissa was reformed, 
and the currency of any gold or silver coin in 
these provinces, but the 19th san gold mohar and 19th san sikka rupee, 
and their respective divisions into halves and quarters, was prohibited. 
* See Prmsep, Indian Antiquities, and Thurston, History of the Coinage of the . 
East India Company. 
