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sikka rupee struck in the mint at Calcutta, and shall bear the following 
impression : — 
( Sect. VI.) The half and quarter rupee shall he proportionately 
less than the rupee, and bear the same impression as the rupee. 
( Sect. XII.) The Mint Master at Calcutta shall cause a private 
mark to be put on all dies which may be prepared for the mint at 
Farrukhabad, but in such a manner as not to be distinguished by the 
naked eye, or by persons unacquainted with it. 
1804. In 1804 the Commissioner of Cuttack pointed out that 
rent coin of small value, especially for the use of the troops, and 
pilgrims resorting to the temple of Jagannath, and proposed that the 
coin should bear on one face the figure of Jagannath, and on the other 
the value of the coin in Persian and Uriya, and the date. This coin 
was never struck. 
In this year the Assay Master of the Benares mint expressed a 
me to ascertain by experiments what advantage there might be in 
introducing the mode at present used in Calcutta, or in continuing the 
native method of coining with the hammer only, though the whole 
figure of the die is not impressed on the rupees that are made in any 
of the native mints. The Riwa rupees, though of inferior value, 
have to an inexperienced person very much the aspect of Benares 
rupees, and* are sometimes passed as such.” 
The Mint Committees in the Ceded Provinces (Baraili and 
recommended that a new copper coinage should be issued, bearing the 
same impression as the Lucknow rupees struck at Allahabad. there 
are,” the Committee stated, “ two kinds of copper coinage in currency. 
* The above is quoted from the text of the Regulation. Mr. Rodgers (J . A. S. B., 
Vol. LVII, Part I for 1888J gives a slightly different version. Ed. 
Obverse. 
Reverse. 
Cuttack. 
great inconvenience was experienced in the 
Province of Cuttack from the want of a cur- 
Benares. 
wish that “ a coining, milling, and laminating 
machine may be sent up to Benares to enable 
Baraili. 
Allahabad. 
Allahabad) were called on, in 1804, to report 
their views as to the introduction of a new 
copper coinage. The Allahabad Committee 
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