Vol. I, No. 10.] Numismatic Supplement VI. 267 
[N.S.] 
DR aes Their silver coin is made either round or 
“square, but so thick as that it never breaks, nor 
“wears out.!” 
The “meanest” rupees in this passage correspond doubtless to 
the ordinary rupees issued by Akbar and Jahangir, weighing each 
about 180 grains; but the “best”? rupees will be the heavy ones, 
from 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 
would be 180: 220, or, as Terry has it, 27: 33. But besides 
these rupees a coin distinctly inferior was also current in Gujarat, 
to wit, the ‘‘mamoody,” worth about 12d., or a little less than 
half the ordinary rupee of that time. 
(6) Sir Thomas Herbert, who, as Secretary to the English 
Embassy to Persia, journeyed in the East from 
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 
“silver, round and thick, stamped after the man- 
“ner of the Saracens (who allow no images) with 
‘““ Arabick letters, only importing the King and 
‘““ Mahomet, is in value one shilling of our coin ; 
“and the Roopee, which is made also of like pure 
““ silver, is 2s. 3d., and a Pardow 4s.? 
(c) But it is Albert de Mandelslo, resident in Strat in 
1638 (A.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 Mamoudis are 
‘made at Surat, of silver of a very base alley, and 
‘“‘ are worth about twelve-pence sterling, and they 
“90 onely at Surat, Brodra, Broitchia, Cambaya, 
‘‘and those parts. Over all the Kingdome be- 
“ sides, as at Amadabath and elsewhere, they have 
““ Ropias Chagam, which are very good silver, 
“and worth halfe a crown French mony. Their 
“small mony is of copper, and these are the 
‘““Peyses we spoke of, and whereof twenty-six 
“make a Mamoudy, and fifty-four a Ropia......... 
“ Spanish Ryalls and Rixdollars are worth there 
“five Mamoudis...... The Chequines and Ducats of 
‘“« Venice are more common there (than the Xera- 
“phins), and are worth eight and a half, and 
| Terry : “A Voyage to East India,” edition of 1777, p. 118. 
2 Harris: “A Compleat Collection of Voyages and’ Travels,” Vol. I.; 
p. 411. 
