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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 651 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MOHUR , the name of a

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coin, used in

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India from the 16th

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CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . The word is taken from the Persian muhr, a

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seal or

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RING (O.E. hring; a word common to Teutonic languages; and probably cognate with the Lat. circus, Gr. KtpKOS or KpLKOS, Skt'. chakra, wheel, circle, cf. also " harangue "); in art, a band of circular shape of varying sizes, made of any material and used f

ring . Between 1835 and 1891 a gold coin, also called a " mohur," was struck by the

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BRITISH

British India and was of the nominal value of 15 rupees . On the

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ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

establishment of a gold

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standard in India in 1899, on the basis of 16d. a

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RUPEE (Hindustani rupiya, from Sanskrit rupya)

rupee, the British

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SOVEREIGN

sovereign was declared legal

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TENDER

tender and the mohur was thus superseded .

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