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district or province than in the headquarters. The Babashai 

 or Baroda rupee, which was at one time one of the accepted 

 currencies of Ahmadabad district, was in universal use in the 

 remote mahal of Modasa in a.d. 1875 (Bombay Gazetteer, 

 Ahmadabad). Similarly the Broach rupee, which was not 

 coined at any rate after a.d. 1835, was at the same date, 

 the usual currency in the forest taluka of Mandvl in the Surat 

 district (Bombay Gazetteer, vol. II, Surat, p. 204). 



Supplemented by the outturn of the korl mints, the 

 currency of Muzafiar would not fail for some years, and 

 afterwards the kori was issued with sufficient regularity to 

 prevent either coin falling into disuse. 



It may be added that though the coins of the Saltanat 

 are not plentiful, yet the korl-like coin of Muzaffar is now far 

 more frequently to be met with than all the remaining sil- 

 ver coins of the Saltanat. 



Section IV, para 4 of the article deals with the weight 

 of the Mahmudl. It is unnecessary to add anything to what 

 has been said, except that 70-74 grains is a fairly close approxi- 

 mate to four-ninths (four-fifths appears to be a misprint) 

 of a Mughal rupee. 



In Section V the arguments for the identification of the 

 coin of Gujarat Fabric with the Mahmudl are summed up. I 

 go so far in agreement with them_as to say that it may have 

 been popularly known as Mahmudl, but I maintain that the 

 true and original Mahmudf is the kori. 



I would further say in reference to Section V, para, (d), 

 that if the metal of the coins of Gujarat Fabric be examined once 

 more, it will be found that they cannot be said to be 'of a 

 very base alley'. All the specimens I have seen, including 

 80 from the Bansda State treasury, which I examined last year, 

 seemed to be of good though hard silver. 



III. 



I have exhausted my a priori arguments. I now quote 

 a translation of the passage from the Mir'at-i-Ahmadi (Bom- 

 bay Lithographed edition of a.h. 1307, p. 225 ! ), which I refer- 

 red to at the beginning of this article. 



* Ihe Bombay Gazetteer, vol. 1, Part I, p. 279, lines 1-8 and note, 

 gives an abstract from this passage, made apparently from the edi- 

 tion 1 cite. It is as follows: " The Jam, who of late years had been 



accustomed to do much as he pleased in 1640 a.d. withheld his tribute 



and set up a mint to coin koris." It goes on to say that 'Azam Khan 

 (viceroy of Gujarat, a.d. 1642) then marched against Xavanagar. The 

 statement that the mint was set up in 1640 a.d. is not found in my 

 edition : and in fact the inference to be drawn from the passage is 

 that the mint was an old established one. There are one or two other 

 small inaccuracies in the Gazetteer account, which was written for the 

 general reader. 



