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Copy of Latter from Bombay Agent to Mr. Gwyther
aw
With reference to
your
letter of 8th alto, I
Janngay 18940
u Major Scott at the Mint after his return from hanse and he told that he had
me
suggested to
ir David Barbour and Mr. Westland when they
et
in
Bombay
six weeks
ago
the same idea
you my the coinage of a
viz
hich occurred to british dollar for Hongkong
and the Straits
the Bombay Mint. At his suggestion I legraphed to Mr. Westland asking whether that the Indian Mints would be
could
say
epared to do the work if required, and enquiring
but I am yet
hat would be the
seignorage
rnished me with
thout reply. In the meantime Major Scott has an estimate of the seignorage, estimate of the amount le
rnished
red upon my estimate of the
amount likely to
tendered for coinage during the first year
₤3.000.000
200.000 worth l
put down as
Fill
that
my
agri guessed at,
which
worth. I daresay you
estimate is as near ab can
great deal would of course
pend upon whether the Mexican Mints more active & upon the popularity
ould become
the British Dollar in
China and the Straits. This
timate of Ato 23 per $1000 appears to me to be a full