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[N.8.] 
Upright scimitar 
to left of ai 
Weight : 177 grains. 
Diameter : °85 inch. 
The regnal year of this coin being 53, reckoned from 
Akbar II’s accession in 1221 H., the Hijri year of issue, whic 
on the obverse is imperfectly recorded as 127x, will have been 
1273—74. 
Here again the abbreviation symbol @tt would seem to 
indicate the presence of a ‘long a’ in the first syllable of the 
Gaikwar’s name—thus Khanderav rather than Khanderav. 
A 
year of its issue, corresponding to 1270 H., or some three years 
earlier than Khanderav’s accession to the Baroda gadi.] 
(2) The year 1274 H. (1858 A.D.) witnessed the suppres- 
sion of the Indian Mutiny, and with it the deposition and 
deportation of Bahadur IT, the titular Mughal Emperor. Right 
on until that year the legend on the Baroda coins testified to 
their having been struck by the Emperor Akbar Ii—a mere 
retention of the old legend was obviously no longer possible. 
To have still continued the uttering of coins that carried on 
their face the acknowledgment of allegiance to the Dehli over- 
lord had been action perilously open to construction as hostility 
to the British Raj. Hence it came to pass that one minor 
consequence of the supersession of the Mughal Badshahat was 
the abandonment by the Gaikwar of that type of coin which 
had for more than half a century obtained throughout the 
Baroda territory, and the introduction forthwith of a currency 
of a distinctly new order. With the end of the Mutiny also 
ended the Akbar Shahi mintage of Baroda. Thus a clear line 
AM. 1274; 127x; 1287; 128x (quarter-rupee) ; 
x—x (eighth of a rupee). 
