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the farmian accorded to the East India Company decrees that, 
‘In the Island of Bombay, belonging to the English, where 
Portuguese coins are current, according to the custom of 
Chinapattan, the Fortunate Coins { Sc 4&0) may be struck.” 
On a few Mughal coins the word Syke does stand at the top of 
the reverse, but, so far as I can remember, the Baroda rupees 
are the only ones in which both terms, a0 and Sylao, occupy 
that position. 
nS (el& lig. —in modern parlance * Colonel of the King’s 
n’?—was an honourable distinction first conferred on Pilaji 
‘title of Sena Khass Khail. ~ 
poly yaee%, ‘the Illustrious Swordsman,’ was a title still 
earlier conferred on the Gaikwar family. Pilaji’s uncle and 
adoptive father, the first Damaji, while an officer under the 
Senapati, so distinguished himself by his personal valour at the 
battle of Balapir in 1720, that on his return to the Dakhan 
the Raja Shahu ennobled him with this decoration of Shamsher 
Bahadur. 
We have already seen that the pre-Mutiny coins of Baroda 
had in a lax sort of way indicated the regnal year of issue by 
reckoning it from the accession of Akbar II in 1221 H. The 
post-Mutiny coins, on the other hand, were content to record 
the Hijri (or in quite recent times the Samvat) year alone, 
n 
(3) AX. 1287. 
Fig. 10: Obv. Collar round rim, enclosing dotted circle, 
itself enclosing the following Devanagart 
legend, written round the circumfer- 
ence :— 
wes AMAT GAT BIS GS GANT FLTEC 
Above the horizontal diameter 
Stat, 
and below it a scimitar, lengthwise, with 
hilt to left and point to right. 
