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(c) Quarter-rupee—no milling. 
Obv. Same as (a). 
Rev. Same as (a), but It 
STG 
instead of wa 
aqaT 
and year e¢ye. 
Weight: 44 grains. 
Diameter: °7 inch. 
(d) Eighth of a rupee—no milling. 
Obv. Same as (a). 
Rev. Same as (a) but e14 
=u 
instead of wa 
Qqq4T. 
Weight: 22 grains. 
Diameter : *625 inch. 
This new type of coin, so utterly modernized, breaks 
abruptly with its numismatic past. It seems no longer a 
genuine Native State coin at ail, but just a feeble far-off imi- 
tation of the British rupee, significant of Young India’s adven- 
ture into coin-land. That unconventional Oriental quaintness, 
which hitherto had lent a peculiar charm to the Baroda coinage, 
S now passed away. Moreover, despite the many changes 
introduced, the new coin still remains an alien production, 
pointedly betokening alike by its Marathi characters and its 
Marathi words the rule of a Maratha within the confines of 
Gujarat. Fittingly enough, it is the gold pieces of this type 
that serve as nazrana to be ceremonially offered to the Maratha 
Gaikwar. 
The letter 4, which on the obverse comes betweer earattla 
and araaats, stands for the title #etTasm, Maharaja. 
The year of issue as entered on the reverse is now for the 
first time the Samvat year reckoned, according to the Vikrama- 
-ditya era, from the vernal equinox of 57 B.C. 
B. Copper. 
(1) A. Two-pice pieces, Samvat 1947: S 1949. 
One-pice pieces, S. 1948; S. 1949. 
(a) Two-pice piece. 
