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Jahāngīrnagar (Dakka) Mint

Coins were issued from the Jahāngīrnagar mint by:

Moghuls		Akbar
		Jahāngīr
		Shāh Jahān I
		Aurangzeb
		Shāh Ālam I
		Azim ush Shān
		Jahāndār
		Farrukh-Siyar
		Rafi al-Darjāt
		Shāh Jahān II
		Muḥammad Shāh
Moghul Contemporaries	Bengal Nawābs	Aḥmad Shāh
		Ālamgīr II
		Shāh ‘Ālam II
Europeans	Bengal Presidency	British

History

See: Extracts from IOR, Extracts from Pridmore; Nelson Wright

On 12^th April 1770 Patna and Dacca were ordered to send coins to Calcutta, monthly, for assay

[1] and on 7^th May 1770 an assay report was presented to Government [2]

In 1769, the mints at Patna and Dacca were ordered to strike coins with the mint name Murshīdābād [3].

In 1771 the matter of issuing 12 sun coins was considered and a proclamation issued [4]. This caused some problems with payment of the troops [5] [6] [7] [8]

Problems with striking coins, with the mint name Murshīdābād, in Patna, continued until at least 1772 [9] [10].

Patna provided Calcutta with the duties charged for coinage in 1772 [11] and later that year Patna gold coins were found to be below standard [12]

Gold continued to be struck at Patna at least as late as 1773 [13]

Patna and Dacca mints were abolished in 1773 [14]

In 1775 consideration was given to reopening the mints at Patna and Dacca [15] [16].

A mint for copper coins was opened at Patna (and Pulta [Fulta]) for coining copper coins in 1780 [17]

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[1] Bengal Consultations. IOR P/1/46, 12^th April 1770, p301

Minute

[2] Bengal Consultations. IOR P/1/47, 8^th May 1770, p 10

Minute. 8^th May 1770, p8

Assay report from Herbert Harris (Assay Master at Calcutta) to Government, dated 7^th May 1770

[3] Fort William-India House Correspondence (1960) Vol VI, 1770-1772 Ed Bisheshwar Prasad, p181, para 50

Public Letter dated 25^th January 1770 from Calcutta to London

[4] Bengal Consultations. IOR P/1/49, 6^th August 1771, 298ff

Resolution 6^th August 1771

[5] Bengal Consultations. IOR P/1/49, 16^th September 1771, p443

Letter from the Patna Council to Calcutta, dated 7^th September 1771

Letter from Calcutta to Patna

[6] Bengal Consultations. IOR P/1/49, 18^th October 1771, p547

Letter from Patna to Calcutta dated 8^th October 1771

Agreed the following directions be sent in reply

[7] Bengal Consultations. IOR P/1/49, 29^th October 1771, p308

Letter from Herbert Harris (Calcutta Mint Master) to Government dated 23^rd October 1771

Agreed copies of them be sent to the Councils of Revenue at Moorshedabad & Patna with the following letters

[8] Fort William-India House Correspondence (1960) Vol VI, 1770-1772 Ed Bisheshwar Prasad, p318, para 13

Public Letter dated 15^th November 1771 from Calcutta to London

[9] Bengal Consultations. IOR P/1/51, 26^th February 1772, p403

Letter to Patna from Calcutta 26^th February 1772

[10] Bengal Consultations. IOR P/1/51, 31^st March p279

Letter from Patna to Calcutta dated 19^th March 1772

[11] Bengal Consultations. IOR P/2/1 4^th May 1772, p195 (3)

Letter from Patna to Calcutta dated 23^rd April 1772

[12] Bengal Consultations. IOR P/2/1 21^st August 1772 p581 (206)

Letter from the Calcutta Mint Master (Herbert Harris) to Government dated 10^th August 1772

Letter from Samuel Touchet (Assay Master) to Herbert Harris (Mint Master), dated 3^rd August 1772

Letter to George Vansittart (Chief at Patna) on 21^st August 1772

Minute entered by Mr Barwell

[13] Fort William-India House Correspondence (1960) Vol VII, 1773-1776 Ed R.P. Patwardhan, p209, para 90

Letter dated 1^st March 1773

[14] Fort William-India House Correspondence (1981) Vol VIII, 1777-1781 Ed Hira Lal Gupta, p62

[15] Bengal Consultations. IOL P/2/11, 14^th August 1775 p42

Letter from H. Cottrell (member of the Committee of Revenue) to Government dated 30^th May 1775

Letter from J Holmes (member of the Committee of Revenue) to Government, dated 30^th May 1775

[16] Fort William-India House Correspondence (1960) Vol VII, 1773-1776 Ed R.P. Patwardhan, p357, para 19

Letter dated 3^rd August 1775.

[17] Fort William-India House Correspondence (1981) Vol VIII, 1777-1781 Ed Hira Lal Gupta, p536, para 25

Letter to Court 30^th April 1781