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E. Thurston — History of the Hast India Company Coinage. [No. 1, 
In this year 
Mauritius. 
the 
Mauritius Government, being put to incon- 
venience by the use of paper money for the 
small change of the colony, asked that the 
Calcutta mint might coin for them small tokens to the value of 100,000 
sikka rupees. The -wish of the Mauritius Government was acceded to. 
1824. In 1824 an application was made by the Resident at Singa- 
Singapore P ore for a SU PP 1 7 ojE sma11 coins to be struck 
at the Calcutta mint for the use of that 
settlement. In the Resident’s letter it is stated that the small money 
in circulation throughout the Malay countries consisted of copper Dutch 
duyt and pice of Prince of Wales’ island, the brass coin of China, and of 
silver Dutch 2, 6, and 9 silver (stiver?; pieces, and the guilder or florin 
commonly called by the natives the rupee. The most universally used 
coins were the duyt and two stiver piece. The duyt was the real 
money of the most remote and unfrequented parts of Sumatra and 
Borneo, and the two stiver piece was the true circulating medium 
of the Celebes, the Spanish dollar being only used in foreign commer- 
cial transactions. It was suggested that the duyt and two silver piece 
should be struck with the same inscriptions, viz. the value in the 
English, Chinese, Malay and Bugies languages, and on the reverse the 
crest of the East India Company without the supporters, and with the 
date and motto of the Company beneath. 
By Regulation II, 1824, it was decided that the Farrukhabad 
Sugar rupees, to be coined at the Sagar mint of 180 
grains, 165 fine and 15 alloy, should be the 
legal currency of Sagar and territories on the Narmada (Nerbudda). 
A letter from the Bombay Mint Committee, dated 27th September, 
Bombay 1824, refers to a communication received from 
the Supreme Government, desiring that im- 
mediate steps be taken for the coinage of a new rupee of the Madras 
standard, aud asking for their opinion on the measures to be adopted 
for a general reform of the currency. The Committee snggested, with 
reference to the first point, that a proclamation should be issued, 
announcing the alteration of the standard, and declaring the new rupee 
current at par with the old. They also recommended the division of 
the anna into sixteen instead of twelve pice, so that the copper currency 
would consist of : — Troy grs. 
Anna ... ... ... 400 
Half Anna 
Quarter ,, 
Double Pice 
Single „ 
200 
200 
50 
25 
