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as possible. On the design of the coins he says, * The rule was 
that the managing Munshi (of the Mint ¢) used to design the 
for his approval; if the king liked the design the coins were 
struck off at the mint, and issued through the whole year, 
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designed these coins (i.e. Wajid ‘Ali’s), and wrote out the 
inscriptions for them. He was given a thousand rupees, a robe 
nour, and other gifts besides........ It had become the 
custom to strike small coins of all kinds of gold, silver and 
copper: they were used by the king and his subjects, and were 
ccount for the crude debased coins of Wajid ‘Ali’s 
reign, which are little more than lumps of metal, I obtained 
the following curious piece of information from the same 
source ; though quite incredible I insert it, as being of some 
by auction to the money-lenders of Cawnpore, who bought them 
on condition that they should be allowed to make copper coins 
the country.”’ 
On 12th February, 1856, Wajid ‘Ali was forced to abdicate 
his throne, and the rule of the kings of Awadh came to an end. 
On 30th June, 1857, the mutiny broke out, and Brijis Qadr, a 
regent. Traditions regarding him are very 
seems to be generally agreed that he struck coins, and the 
Lucknow Sharafts assert that those Banaras coins which havea . 
broad fish and the mint name 3531 Aire were Brijis Qadr rupees. 
1 This is, of course, not strictly correct, as the number of the Regna 
year was changed in the middle of the Hijra year. 
