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Sahāranpūr (dār al-sarur دار السرور) Mint

Coins were issued from the Sahāranpūr (سهارنپور) mint by:

Moghuls	Akbar
	Aurangzeb
	Muḥammad Akbar (1^st Reign)
Moghul Contemporaries	Rohillas
	Marathas
Europeans	British

History

See Nelson Wright

Sahāranpūr was a Moghul mint and, later, was controlled by the Rohillas. It was taken by the Marathas in 1788 and ruled by a number of governors appointed by Sindhia until 1803 when the area was ceded to the British East India Company. The mint continued to operate for the next two years and appears to have been shut down in 1805/6 [1]. This is confirmed by an entry in the records of the EIC dated 26^th September 1805 [2]

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[1] Wiggins K. W. (1996). Acquisition of Indian Mints by E.I.CO. Numismatic Panorama. New Delhi

[2] Bengal Consultations, 17^th October 1805. IOR P/54/47, No 51.

From the Collector of Saharanpore (Mr Guthrie) to Government, dated 26^th September 1805.

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter under date the 24^th ultimo instructing me to transmit to the Mint Master at Farrukhabad the dies and other implements of the mints of this district.

I beg in reply to state that when the mints under my charge were abolished by order of Government, I did not consider that the dies might be afterwards required, and I ordered them to be broken up. I shall acquaint the Mint Master at Farrukhabad with the circumstance, and should it be necessary, shall furnish him with dies similar to those which I have inadvertently destroyed.