1893.] E. Thurston — History of the East India Company Coinage. 73 
forwarded a number of coins as showing their views with respect to 
manner in which the coinage should be executed. 
1816. In September, 1816, the Board of Commissioners, Farrukh- 
abad, pointed out that for some time only a 
Farrukhabad. small quantity of silver had been brought to 
the mint by individuals for coinage, and suggested the expediency of 
employing the establishment in the coinage of copper pice on account of 
Government. The following draft Resolution was submitted by the 
Commissioners : — 
I. That Sect. XLIII, Reg. XLY, 1803, prescribing a specified 
weight for the copper pice to be struck at Farrukhabad be rescinded 
II. That such copper coin be struck at Farrukhabad, weighing 
200 grains troy for the whole, or double pice, and 100 grains troy for 
the half or single pice ; 
III. That such copper coin shall be issued from the mint at the 
rate of 32 whole and 64 half pice for each rupee. 
In November, 1816, the Mauritius Government wrote to the 
Governor General that “ this Colony is subject 
Mauritius. to considerable inconvenience and difficulties, 
especially since the great fire, from the want of a small money for the 
ordinary daily transactions of common life. It would, therefore, be 
most desirable to obtain from the mint of the Supreme Government a 
coinage for the use of this land. A decimal division of the Spanish 
Dollar, which coin is here equivalent to two sikka rupees, would be 
the most convenient money for accounts. The books of the merchants 
and traders being kept in livres, ten of which are in this Colony equal 
to the Spanish Dollar, it would be desirable that each of the silver 
coins should be marked ONE L1VRE. 
By Regulation XXY, 1817, it was enacted 
Bengal. that : — 
I. The copper pice struck at the Calcutta mint shall be of pure 
copper, and of the weight of 100 grains troy ; 
II. The inscription shall be on one side “one pie sikka” in 
Bangali, Persian, and Nagari, and the date on the obverse. 
HI. That the pice shall be issued from the mint and public 
treasuries at the rate of 64 to 1 sikka rupee and be legal tender 
at the rate of 64 to a rupee of the local currency throughout the pro- 
vinces subject to the Presidency of Fort William. 
IV. The pice struck at the mints of Benares and Farrukhabad, 
agre'eably to the provisions of Regulation 
Benares. x, 1809, Reg. VII, 1814, and Reg. XXI, 1816, 
Farrukhabad. shall be also considered as circulating equally 
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