نقود شركة الهند الشرقية الإنجليزية المقلدة للنقود الهندوسية "الباغودا الذهبية"

Abstract EN

The ruling authority in the Islamic and European world paid attention to coin minting because it is a constant and permanent means of expressing the ruler's sovereignty and his right to assume the throne of the country, It is also a medium of exchange with other countries with which it trades, in order to facilitate commercial transactions.

And when the trade relations between the company English and India began, she Made imitation Hindu coins of the Vijayangarh Empire in southern India are the first imitations of Indian coins by the English company in general; This is because it is the first region or the first empire that the British were able to control because of the weakness of its rulers, and engraved on them the same images of the Hindu deities to please the Hindus and to show religious tolerance between the Hindus and the English in order to get closer to them and facilitate their commercial transactions in southern India, and because the symbols on the coins testify to the concepts which the issuer wishes to highlight by engraving them throughout the area in which their coins were traded, the company has engraved special symbols.