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with the pice of Calcutta coinage throughout the above-mentioned 
provinces, and shall in like manner, be received as legal tender in 
payment of the fractional parts of a rupee of the local currency at the 
rate of 64 pice for each rupee. 
Farrukhabad. B J Re §' lllation XXVI > 1S17 » ;t was enacted 
that : — 
I. Whereas it may from time to time be found expedient to coin 
rupees of the weight and standard of the Farrukhabad rupee at the mints 
of Calcutta or 13enares, it has seemed advisable to rescind so much 
of section II of Reg. XLV, 1803, as tends to limit the coinage of 
Farrukhabad rupees to the mint of Farrukhabad, and to direct that the 
following enactment be henceforth in force : — 
II. Hie silver coin denominated the Farrukhabad rupee, and of 
the weight and standard prescribed by section II of Reg. Ill, 1806, 
struck at the mints of Calcutta, Farrukhabad, or Benares, or at any 
other mint established by order of the Governor General in Council, 
is hereby declared to be the established and legal silver coin in the 
ceded and conquered provinces. 
In 1817 the weight of the pice struck in the Calcutta mint was 
Calcutta fixed at 100 grains, and they bore the inscrip- 
tion “ one pie sikka.” 
1818. In June, 1818, the Wice-Presidcnt in Council expressed his 
concurrence with the Resident at Delhi as to 
the inexpediency of maintaining the Delhi 
Resident was accordingly directed to discontinue its 
operations, still causing, however, such a number of coins to be struck 
as might be necessary for the purpose of satisfying the feelings of the 
king. 
In August, 1818, the Calcutta Mint Master submitted for the consi- 
General. deration of Government specimen coins of the 
weight and standard of the proposed new cur- 
rency, and stated that, as the difference in size and weight of the new 
coins might not be considered sufficient to enable all persons to at once 
distinguish them from the old ones, he had thought it expedient to 
affix such further distinctive marks as would be obvious to the most 
ordinary observer. The specimens, which were distinguished from the 
existing currency by a raised rim and perpendicular milling, were adop- 
ted as the pattern for the new coinage. 
In 1818 the Calcutta Mint Committee stated that they were not 
aware of any objection to the inscription on the rupee undergoing an 
alteration, and that it would be more consistent with the dignity of the 
British Government of India to authorise its own currencies by its own 
Delhi. 
mint, and the 
