August 19: East India Company minted one rupee coin

We use many phrases like the coin’s coin and the two sides of the coin in everyday language, but today when and who made the first coin in everyone’s pocket, it is a matter of history. Recorded in pages.

In the year 1757, on August 19, the East India Company made the first one rupee coin in Kolkata and the first coin made by the company was run in the Mughal province of Bengal. Actually, under a treaty with the Nawab of Bengal, the East India Company made this mint in the year 1757.

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