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Job Charnock, the British agent of the East India Company, founded the British factory at Suttanutti village in 1690. Thus the foundation of the great city of Calcutta, the future capital of the British Indian Empire, was laid.
In 2012, [Paul J. E. Stevens] has published a masterly work that explores the coins and mints of the Bengal Presidency from 1757, when the EIC first acquired the right to mint coins there [...].
[The Battle of Buxar] was one of the most critical and important victories in the history of the British wars in that part of the globe. It broke completely the force of Suja Dowla, the only Mughul chief who retained till this period any considerable strength; it placed the Emperor himself [Shah 'Alam] under the protection of the English; and left them without dispute the greatest power in India.
The Sicca rupee was introduced in 1793 by the Government of Bengal as legal tender in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa.
The term sicca (sikkā, from Ar. sikka, 'a coining die,'—and 'coined money,'—whence Pers. sikka zadan, 'to coin') had been applied to newly coined rupees, which were at a batta or premium over those worn, or assumed to be worn, by use. In 1793 the Government of Bengal, with a view to terminating, as far as that Presidency was concerned, the confusion and abuses engendered by this system, ordered that all rupees coined for the future should bear the impress of the 19th year of Shāh 'Alam (the 'Great Mogul' then reigning), and this rupee, '19 San Sikkah,' 'struck in the 19th year,' was to be the legal tender in Bengal, Bahar, and Orissa. This rupee, which is the Sicca of more recent monetary history, weighed 192 grs. troy, and then contained 176.13 grs. of pure silver. The 'Company's Rupee,' which introduced uniformity of coinage over British India in 1835, contained only 165 grs. silver.
