266 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [December, 1905. 
describes two coins (Nos. 690 and 691). 
w coin differs from these in the case of the reverse. There 
is no trace of a square area, and in this respect the new coin 
resembles the early issues of Shah Jahan. The horizontal mark 
below the first line is probably part of the word 84, and the similar 
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at 
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oJ} which commences in the last line. cannot explain the letter 
read as y which comes between sb and ¢¢} in the first line. The 
reading of the last line suggests that the lower margin of the re- 
verse on both the coins described in the B.M. catalogue should 
read 8l& yoiSe, In Coin No. 690 it is read ob ($ ) 9 (1) which 
is historically improbable. The right margin of Coin No. 691 is 
read sbt wa. A comparison with Coin No. 690 shows that it 
should be sit wisale, The top margin of No. 691 seems to 
read Gy} ya)... , which presents a difficulty. 
R. Bury. 
45, On THE IpentTity or THE Coins or GUJARAT FABRIC AND THE 
Strat Maumiopis. 
In this article I] purpose submitting evidence which, in my 
opinion, goes to prove that the silver coins designated in the 
British Museum Catalogue coins of “ Gujarat Fabric” are iden- 
tical with those known to early writers under the name of “ Strat 
Mahmidis.” iia 
I. From the testimony of European travellers in India m 
the seventeenth century, it is clear that in the first half of that 
century silver coins of two distinct types were current m and 
around the city of Strat. 
(a) Egward Terry, “ Chaplain to the Right Hon. Sir 
Thomas Row, Knt.,” landed from the good ship 
“Charles” at the port of Strat on the 25th of 
September, 1616 (A.H. 1025). In his “ Voyage to 
East India,” first published in 1655, he thus 
writes :— 
“They call their pieces of money roopes, of which 
“there are som i meanest 
“three-pence is the least piece of silver current in 
“those countries, and very few of them to be seen. 
