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AMOUNT OF COIN IN CIRCULATION.

It is impossible to make the calculation with any chance of approximation to the real ...

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AMOUNT OF PAPER CURRENCY IN CIRCULATION.

The notes of the Oriental Bank Corporation, the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China, the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, and the Chartered Agra and United Service Bank Limited, in circulation during the year ending 31st December, 1863, were in amount as follows:

Note: The OCR output for the tabular data is severely fragmented. The figures above represent only those clearly legible in the scan for the first two banks across the first four months. The remaining data (including the full 12-month series for all four banks) appears in the OCR as disordered sequences: 912,522 633,084 363,623 328,857 1,093,987 777,410 413,267 488,680 848,931 786,807 438,311 471,987; 748,065 240,157 737,935 298,197; and 881,114 738,606 330,792 896,778 716,742 326,540 890,602 749,913 342,870 824,894 637,087 339,738. These cannot be reliably assigned to specific banks or months without the original layout.