British Indian and Mughal Coins

The Bengal Presidency , formerly known as the Presidency of Fort William , was the most prominent administrative division of the British East India Company in the Indian subcontinent. At the height of its territorial extent, it encompassed much of present-day Bangladesh, eastern and northern India, and parts of neighbouring South and Southeast Asia. The Presidency became the principal centre of British administration, with Calcutta serving as its capital and one of the most important minting centres in India during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Ali Gohar , who ascended the Mughal throne as Emperor Shah Alam II , was the seventeenth Mughal Emperor and the son of Alamgir II . His reign coincided with the rapid decline of Mughal authority and the rise of the East India Company as the dominant political power in India. Shah Alam II ruled from 10 October 1760 to 31 July 1788 , and after a brief interruption, from 16 October 1788 until his death on 19 November 1806 ....