268 = Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [ December, 1905. 
“sometimes nine Ropias, Biet -money, accord- 
“ing to e change and the rate set on the 
te mone ye 
Reckoning the French crown (écu), the Spanish pire: and 
the German rixdollar (reichsthaler) each at 4s. 6d., and the 
fiactonted between a minimum of 10°8d. and a maximum of 13d. 
We should also bear in mind that the silver of the Mahmidi is 
here stated to have been inferior to that of the rupee ; also that 
the district in which the Mahmidi passed as current coin was 
limited to the southern part of the province of Gujarat, say from 
rat to Cambay. 
I. With what coin may we identify this eee Mabmadi? Is 
it the same as the well-known Mahmidi of Pers 
Th Persian money should have eng current in Gujarat 
and Fostvictad there to merely the southern districts is certainly 
very improba 
Moreover the value of this Persian Mahmiidi is. given by 
When treating of the Persian coins, Fr Bas whose ye 
letters a aac from India or Persia between the years 1 
and 1681, s 
“3 Shahees is 1 Mam. Surat ; 
2 Shahees is 1 Mamood. Porsia ” 
n Fryer thus baat distinguishes between the Sarat 
Mahmadi and the Persian, we may safely conclude that the two 
coins are not identica ‘ 
III. Can the Sirat Mabmiidi have been a oie! coin of eT 
or other of the various types that w current in Cutch an 
Kathiawar (Nay somes Jiinagadh, and Porband ar) : 
trade betw Gujarat and Cutch, or Gujarat ee 
Kathiawar, was for slic most part carried on by land and not bY 
! Mandelslo : wee and Travels”: English translation by Johe 
Davies, editonto 1662, rier,” 
Bal —_ of “ bedi in India by Jean Baptiste Tave : 
Vol Pa Dp 2 of 
3 Fryer: - New Account of East India and Persia”: edition 
1698, p 211. 
