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II. 631 



The only available specimens of a quarter-rupee are two of 

 the year 1619 , l but one other specimen passed through Mr. 

 Gait's hands and is recorded by him to be dated 1616 (Report, 

 p. 3). The coin could not be found when enquiries were recently 

 made for it, and as no other coin of the same date is known, the 

 reading was in all probability a mistaken one for 1618. If the 

 Bengali symbol for 8 is viewed from a different angle, it can be 

 easily taken for the Bengali 6, and the mistake probably occurred 

 from the character being written with a slight inclination from 



the vertical, thus 



A. 



Mr. Gait states on p. 163 of his 



Hi4ory that Gadadhara died in February 1696 A.D., while the 

 Sdka year 1618 began on March 25th of that year 2 There is, 

 therefore, no reason for thinking that Rudra Simha was 

 installed in any other year except that found on the earliest 

 rupee, viz., 1618. 



Undated half- rupees are fairly common, 3 while rupees of 

 every year of Rudra Simha' s reign exist. Only single speci- 

 mens, however, of rupees minted in the years 1619, 1628 and 

 1629 are known, 4 and, as may be seen from the following cut, 

 the 1619 coin is peculiar in recording an old name of the early 

 Ahom kingdom and in having an inscription differing to some 

 extent from the ordinary inscription on Assamese coins. 



#*£»" 



%^tor 





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— L. 



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Silver Rupee.— Weight 172-3 grains. Size— -91" 



Obverse. 



(1) Sri Srimat 



(2) Saumurekvara (e) 



(3) d( )va Rudra Simha 



(4) sya Sake 1619 

 {'Simha ' chasing a deer) 



Reverse. 



(1) mSrlHara 



(2) Gauri padaju- 



(3) gala Jcamala 



(4) madhukar 



i 



2 



[B. M.] and [B]. 



Cunningham, Indian Eras, p. 193. 

 8 For reproduction of one belonging 



XXVI., Fig. L 



4 [B], [H. E. S.] and [B] respectively. 



to the Daflating find, vide Plate 



