The reason for establishing a mint at Chhachraulī
is not obvious. In 1799 Shimbunath, the officer in
charge of the Bawani Mahal, in which Chhachraulī
was situated, had risen against the Marathas but was ‘met and repulsed by a
Moghul officer’ [1]. Perhaps
this was the occasion for the issue of the coins – the date AH1215, Ry42
(1799/1800) would fit.
References
[1]Wright H. Nelson (1908), Catalogue
of the Coins in the IndianMuseum, Calcutta, Vol. III. Reprinted in 1975 as
Coins of the Mughal Emperors in India
by K.V. Sachdeva, New Dehli
Coins were issued from the Chhachraulī
mint by: