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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 See also:

Persian See also:gold See also:coin, used in See also:India from the 16th See also:century. The word is taken from the Persian muhr, a See also:seal or See also:ring. Between 1835 and 1891 a gold coin, also called a " mohur," was struck by the See also:government of See also:British India and was of the nominal value of 15 rupees. On the See also:establishment of a gold See also:standard in India in 1899, on the basis of 16d. a See also:rupee, the British See also:sovereign was declared legal See also:tender and the mohur was thus superseded.

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