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es pe er ? 
Ctnnieeess Their silver coin is made either round or 
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square, but so thick as that it never breaks, nor 
‘wears out!” 
i abe “meanest ’’ rupees in this passage correspond doubtless to 
i ed rupees issued by Akbar and Jahangir, weighing each 
rial 80 grains; but the “best” rupees will be the heavy ones, 
om 212 to 220 grains each, that were struck in the first few 
years of Jahangir’s reign. The ratio of the former to the latter 
gold be 180: 2: 0, or, as Terry has it, 27: 33. But besides 
qceng, sage a coin distinctly inferior was also current in Gujarat, 
h a , the “ mamoody,” worth about 12d., or a little less than 
alf the ordinary rupee of that time. 
(b) Sir Thomas Herbert, who, as Secretary to the English 
Embassy to Persia, journeyed in the East f 
1627 to 1629 (A.H. 1037-9), writes in his “ Travels” 
regarding the money of “ Indostan.”’ 
“The current money here is pice, which is an heavy 
“round piece of brass, 30 of which make one 
“ shilling. The Mamoody, which is of good 
H. 1048), who gives the most precise infor- 
mation as to the money current in “the Kingdome 
of Guzuratta.” In his “ Voyages and Travels ” he 
writes :— 
“ They have also two sorts of money, to wit, the 
“ Mamoudies and the Ropias. The Mamondis are 
opias m, 
“and worth halfe a crown French mony. Their 
“small mony is of copper, and these are the 
“ Peyses we § ke of,. and whereof twenty-six 
« make a Mamoudy, and fifty-four a Ropia......... 
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l Terry : “ A Voyage to East India, 
P a Harris: “A Compleat Collection 
