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British India, Victory of Plassey, Copper Medal, Issued in 1757.

Currency:INR Category:Coins & Paper Money / Medals & Tokens Start Price:90,000.00 INR Estimated At:20,000.00 INR and UP
British India, Victory of Plassey, Copper Medal, Issued in 1757.
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India, British India, Victory of Plassey, Copper Medal, Issued in 1757, Obverse, VICTORY. AT. PLASSY CLIVE. COMMANDER, Victory upon an elephant, MDC CLVIII SOC. P.A.C(the Society for Promoting Arts and Commerce) within exergue in two lines, Reverse, INIVRIES. ATTONED. PRIVILEGE. AVGMENTED. TERRITORY. ACQVIRED, Robert Clive- dressed as a Roman general, holds staff surmounted by a lion as he gives another staff to Meer Jaafar at left with cornucopia, globe, and rudder between them, A. SOVBAH. GIVEN. TO. BENGAL. MDCCLVIII in exergue in two lines, 40mm, 24.99 grams (Eimer 655; Pingo 30; MI 638/400), areas of mint red under darkened surfaces, lustrous. Extremely Fine, Highly Desirable,
Exceedingly Rare.
Historical Importance:
Mir Jafar was a military general under Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, Mir Jafar had a dream of becoming a Nawab & he saw an opportunity to join hands with the Britishers during the battle of Plassey where Mir Jafar did not obey the order of nawab and an army of 50,000 soldiers was defeated by the British army of 3500 soldiers. Mir Jafar later killed Siraj and was appointed as Nawab in his place. But he became little more than a puppet ruler, forced to cede control of Bengal through the treaties he signed with the British. Siraj's defeat also meant that the French were no longer a force in Bengal. The Bengal treasury allowed the Company to strengthen its military might and start the expansion of British control of the Indian subcontinent.