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Calcutta (Kalkutta, Alīnagar, Alīnagar Kalkutta) Mint

Coins were issued from the Calcutta mint by:

Moghul Contemporaries	Nawābs of Bengal
	Alwar (Coins struck for)
Europeans	British	Calcutta Mint, 1757-1760
		Calcutta Mint, 1760-1790
		Calcutta Mint, Start of Machinery 1790-1800
		Calcutta, Milled Coins c1800-c1830
		Calcutta, Introduction of Steam
	Portuguese	Luis I

History

Early Issues 1757 to 1760; See also Bengal in 1756-1757

1760 to 1790

Introduction of Milled Coins

Milled Coins 1800 to 1830

Introduction of Steam

For correspondence between London & Calcutta see Fort William-India House Correspondence

For minutes of the meetings of various Calcutta committees see extracts from Public Consultations

For correspondence between Murshīdābād & other places see Letters Received & Sent From/To Murshīdābād

References

See Pridmore pp183ff, Pridmore pp189ff, Pridmore pp. 193ff

Tripathy A, Trade and Finance in the Bengal Presidency, 1793-1833, pp. 13-14