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maintained its standing as the recognised currency of the southern 
savage 
e already seen that the Strat Mahmidi was worth just 
about icnicadis of the Imperial rupee, hence, had both coins been 
of equally good silver, the Mahmitdi would have weighed 80 grains 
over ieseririe the 180 grains of the rupee. Its actual veg” how- 
in my on, ow: 
” 35, 36, 67, 70, 71, 72( A seer’ 74, 110, LL "2, and 114 grains. 
Of these not one cou y any possibility be regarded as in value 
four-fifths of a Mughal rupee 
us we are compelled to the conclusion that the Sarat Mab- 
midi was not identical with any silver coin of the Gujarat 
Saltanat. 
V. If, now, this Mahmidi current in Sirat was not the Persia 
Mahmidi, nor the Cutch or Kathiawar Kori, nor the Mahmidiotf 
the Gujarat Saltanat, then, by the “‘ method of exhaustion,” it must 
have been the Coin of Gujarat Fabric—the only remaning Se 
The identity of these two is confirmed by the following considera 
tions :— 
(a) All the Gujarat Fabric coins bear impressed the name of 
Akbar, the conqueror of the province, and hence the 
(b) The "ae on these coins, ging, so fa syn 
‘H. 989 to 1027 (A.D. 1581- 1618), fet 
hein easily within the od to which the state- 
ments made regarding i eek Mahmidi by Terry 
nd Herbert and Mandelslo have reference 
{c) One on te across these coins nowa ays” in the strip 
of country between Sarat and Abmadabad, but 
rat Fabric 
(d) And—most seapetaant of all—the a weight : 
these Gujarat Fabric coins which now come to han 
seb to be ai mee W he infer the 
Hen e I 
weight to have been about 90 grains. oo 
eideeiag both their base material and their weight, the 
money-value of such coins would bear to that of 
subsist between the Sirat Mahmiidi and the * Ropia 
Chagam 
If, then, as the conclusion of the whole matter, we may regard 
