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SHAH AULUM.

Table of Gold Coins.

سکه زد بر هفت کشور سایه فضل الله حامي دين محمد شاه عالم بادشاه

40 c

The same as on the Company's coin, explained in page 2. All later than the 19th sun, bear the symbol of a royal umbrella.

Supplementary Table Op Indian Gold Coins.

[The letters a, b, and c, refer to the inscriptions in the preceding page.]

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AURUNGZEB, plain 167.25 B. 2 0 100.0 168.68 89.890

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suns 5 to 51 168.29 B. 1 2 Agra 162.00 B. 2 0 Etawa.. 168.20 B. 2 0 Delhi 167.65 B. 2 0 Lahor.. 167.60 B. 0 2 Surat.. 170.20 B. 2 0 sun 29* 164.00 W. 2 3 BEHADUR SHAH 168.35 B.

93.843 A. D. 1288.? 95.128 Aboo ulMuzuffer. 96.435 A. D.1396, Delbi. 98.448 A. D.1556, Delbi. 97.750 Injured by solder of ring. 101.152 at Boorhanpoor. 99.550 Plain field. 101.674 Square shield. 93.551 Vitiatedhysolder? 100.090 Struck at Allaha

bad. 102.647 Supposed from symbol 39. 81.102 Probably forged.

102.230 Several.

98.0 164 78 87.812 99.867 Delhi, A.H. 1076 100.0 162.00 86.330 98.182 Ilu0, these vary 100.0 168.20 89.634 101,939 only in the place 100.0 167.65 89.371 101.606 of coinage. 94.5 158.43 84.430 100.0 170.20 90.700 79.7 130.69 69.644

1 1 97.4 163.53 87.145

JEHANDAR SHAH 167.25 B. 2 0 100.0 167.25 89.128
FUROKHSEER sun6 167.33 B. 1 0
Lahore 168.00 B.
MOHAM. SHAH (a) 167.12 B.
(b) suns 2 to 17 168.07 | B.
Agra.....
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Etawa....

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164.79 B. 13 166.70 B. 1 31 166.30 B. 1 0 167.12 B. 1 1 968.30 B. 1 3 166.90 B. 1 2 167,90 B. 1 3

96.4 168.07 B. 1 1 97.4 161.87 86.263 96.9 161.90 86.278 97.4 164.79 B. 1 3 99.0 163.07 86.900 98.2 166.70 88.141 99.2 165.24 88.141 100.0 166.30 89.155 99.2166.98 88.987 98.5 164.29 87.551 99.8 167.46 89.241

96.021 103.152

79.204 No place of coin

age, others Delhi.

99.108 Shah Aulum I.;

struck at "Khujisteh buniáď” (Delhi) in 1123.

101.364 Struck at Jonpur, 1124. 97.717 Delhi, A.H. 1125. 98.106

98.122 Struck at Delhi. 99.200 Ditto. Average. 98.830 100.241)

97.113 Sun 1. 101.394 Sun 20. See p. 21. 101.203? Dacca or Delhi. 99.571 101.493

(c) sun 12164.70 W. 1 0 87.5 144.12 76.800 87.344 Ill-executed, Del

hit marked .

*The coins marked thus appear to be forgeries; there are 27 of them bearing the superscription of Aurungzeb, badly executed, and nine having that of Ferokhseer, and the date H. 1126, with the same sun, juloos 29, although the latter Emperor only reigned two years.

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[For explanation of the several columns of this table see page 32; and for converting decimals into annas and pie see Table V, page 10.]

*The inscription on this coin, of which there are three specimens, is very badly executed; it is most probably forged.

This debased mohnr is very peculiar :—it was probably coined under Mahratta influence there were 83 of the sort, all of the same date.

Table of Silver Coins.

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TABLE VH. SILVER COINS OF INDIA.

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[To find the value in Sicca Rupees, deduct one-sixteenth from the value in Furukhabad Rupees : the latter are the same as Madras and Bombay Rs. For the value in £ sterling, divide by 10.]

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98.381 Struck at Agra by? 96.864 Gujrat and Cutch. 92-004 Formerly coined. 93.568 Present currency. 102.390 Coined for city currency. 105.272 (Equal to Delhi standI ard, 1750.) 103.376 Same as Delhi Rupee. 88.982 Srisahy, cmn. curncy. introduced by Tantia. 81.751 or Bapoosahv? 84.428 Coined in 1792. 95.573 Suns 18, 21, and 26, (1778-86.)

106.974 Equal to the Sa. rupee. 94.578 Coined at Kaira, Gujrat. 91.982 Coined at Pitlad, do. 97-075 Standard of Poona, also 97.484 called Chinsory. 56.793

101-340 Coined in Calcutta for 102.948 101.500 103.396

the Dacca and Cuttack Districts, also the old

currency of Madras.

97.729 The Sural arcot, men96.775

tioned in Reg. XXXV. 1793. 102.545 TheMadras dollar rupee. 100.556 Formerly current here. 100,334 Coined at Pondicherry? 98.716 Uncertain, (from Chitagong.)

99.258 Forshi of Reg. XXXV. 1793.

100.215

86.592 Probably forged. 99.716 Brought to Chitagong by sea. Current in the valley of Assam and the neighbouring districts: coined at Rungpoor and Jorhat.

98.0, 169.59

102.782

Siva,

173.40 Br. 13

97.1 168.34

102.025

Pramatta,.. 169.90 Br. 12

96.7, 164.24

99.537

102.100

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101.177 Restored to throne in 99.303 1793. 102.159

93.153 Anasahy? Gujrat, Baroda, Kaira, &c.

84.787 Coined by Govind Bukshy, (Hyderabad,) see Govind Bukshy. 91.849 Coined at Baroda, from sur 4 to 18.

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178.50 Wo. 1.591.1 178.50 Wo. 7 88.8 Bulubsahy,.... 175.56 Wo. 15 Bunder, tuksal, 163.79 Br. 85 Gurnalí, 174.66 Br. 9 Burhanpoor, 178.80 Br. 8.5 95.2

180.00 Stand. 91.7 165.00 100.000 Boondee, 1819, 171.56 Wo. 7 189.8 152.26 92.273 1825, 172.82 Br. 7 94.6 163.46 98.622 Brazil, Pataka, 407.99 Wo. 5 89.6 365.49 221.514 Brodera, old,. new,

Present standard.

Current in Ajmeer

and Bundelkhund. Brazilian dollar.

162.51 98.490

158.42 96.011

85.4

149.957 90-880 Coined at Baroda.

95.2

155.93 94.502

195.4

166.66 101.005

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Also called " Purkee,"
coined by Sindea in
Khandésh.
Persian Gulph.
The old Moorshedabad

19th sun sicca rupee. By Reg. XIV. 1818*. By Reg. VII. 1833, all receivable at par.

*The standard of 1818-1830 was really a pennyweight too fine, in consequence of an error in the old standard plate of England, to which the assays of India were referred.

170.23 103.171

120.17 72,828
175.923 106.620

175.923 106.620
176.00 106.666

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The proper correction has now been introduced in both countries and it has been to the assays in this table made prior to 1830.

* The Dollars of the Independent States of Mexico, Bolivia, Chili, and Peru, are of the same weight and value as the Spanish Dollar: they varied during the revolutionary period.

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163.27 98.951
374.87 227.194
374-27 226.830
372-21 225.584

225.000

87.503

48.909

Since 1772, by law.
Average in England.
Since 1812, average of
Calcutta assays.
By United States law.
By law, 162 grs.
(Previous to 1830 near-

244.624

ly 3 dwts. Br.)

In the Doab.

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