Re the currency of the EIC: try these links = 1 Online old book - ''Useful tables, forming an appendix to the Journal of the Asiatic Society'' ... By James Prinsep, 1834. Its first part contains information about coins, weights, and measures of British India. http://tinyurl.com/392wopf or http://books.google.co.in/books?id=BTYGAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Prinsep%27s+Useful+Tables&source=bl&ots=DWb-LcyPee&sig=vRTd-ZN3LMh0R-Yd6PHkalGE8n4&hl=en&ei=CkaOTMTXOYW3cM69yMkE&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false 2 The East India Company outside India. [Text of] A talk given to the London Numismatic Club on 9th Sept. 1999 by John Roberts-Lewis. http://www.mernick.org.uk/lnc/talks/1999sep.htm 3 (United Kingdom of Sth. Britain, Britain, West Britain, & Nth. Britain) East India Co. Currency (1835) (United Kingdom of The Britains) East India Company Currency (1835) Presidency of Bengal, Presidency of Madras, & Presidency of Bombay Currency (1835) http://www.weights-and-measures.com/xeiccurrency.html 4 Book - The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company, 1660-1760, by K. N. Chaudhuri Reviewed at http://eh.net/node/2731 Hope this helps. --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Barlow" I have copied this message posted on the London-Companys (sic) List. Does any India-Raj lister know anything about this? In my ignorance I didn't know pagodas, ducats, etc were used in the Australian colonies. Very interesting. Gordon From: Caroline Gaden My questions relate to the East India Company in particular.... did they have a similar variety of currency in use.... if something was bought in India, what coinage would have been used? Was Sterling is use from the earliest days or would the local currency have been acceptable? Also what goods would the East Indiamen have carried out to India and what coinage would they have been sold for? Many thanks Caroline