Patna Sanwat / Azeemabadee rupee account
Local contractual denomination; not all Patna coin issues.1
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- Where
- South Asia
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A 1775 land grant denominated rent in Sanwat Azeemabadee rupees, separately valued from sicca.2
Local contractual denomination; not all Patna coin issues. No complete account-unit termination established in this pass.1
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Coins and notes
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Complete evidence record →Legal history and sources
A1775 land grant denominated rent in Sanwat Azeemabadee rupees, separately valued from sicca.2
Parties converted the grant's existing rent into sicca after the1793 regulation and before the1802 settlement. This is a documented local obligation transition, not universal abolition.3
Local contractual denomination; not all Patna coin issues. No complete account-unit termination established in this pass.1
Parties converted the grant's existing rent into sicca after the 1793 regulation and before the 1802 settlement. This is a documented local obligation transition, not universal abolition.3
Replacement by an existing currency
This conversion belongs to the history of the retiring unit. It does not make that unit an ancestor of the currency adopted.
- Calcutta sicca rupee · 1793–1802 Conversion terms and evidence ↗
Source notes
- Judicial Committee of the Privy Council · Meer Mahomed Hossein v A. J. Forbes (1874)
Judgment paragraph 1
- Judicial Committee of the Privy Council · Meer Mahomed Hossein v A. J. Forbes (1874)
Judgment paragraph 1
- Judicial Committee of the Privy Council · Meer Mahomed Hossein v A. J. Forbes (1874)
Judgment paragraph 2
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Cite this currency
“Patna Sanwat / Azeemabadee rupee account.” The Family Tree of Money. Field Technologies, Inc. Data v49; accessed 14 October 2026.
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