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sea, and the influence of this trade would thus be specially felt in 
the north and north-west portion of the province. It hence 
appears extremely improbable that any coins from Cutch or 
Kathiawar should become the circulating medium in South Guja- 
rat, yet not find acceptance as currency for Ahmadabad and the 
north. 
The coms of Cutch and Kathiawar may indeed have been 
originally called ‘mahmidis,’ but this designation soon gave 
place to the term ‘kori,’ the name that still attaches to them. 
Accordingly, if ever current in the Strat district, they would, in 
all probability, have been denominated not the Mahmudis but the 
Koris of Strat. 
Lastly, these Koris, like the Persian Mahmudis, were all of 
them considerably inferior in value to the Strat Mahmiidi. The 
latter, we have seen, was reckoned at about 12d., the rupee being 
27d., but the Cutch Kori is now, and was probably then too, ap- 
praised at 7:1d., that of Jinagadh at 7-3d., of Navanagar at 7-6d., 
and of Porbandar at 85d. Or, to express these relative values in 
another way, in exchange for Rs. 100, 225 Strat Mahmtdis 
sufficed; but of the Ranashai Koris of Porbandar 318 were 
required ; of the Jamshai Koris of Navanagar, 355, of the Diwan- 
shai Koris of Jainagadh, 369; and of the Koris of Cutch, 380. In 
fact it would seem that, while the Surat Mahmidi fluctuated 
between half a rupee and a third, inclining to the half, the Kori 
ranged in value between a third of a rupee and a quarter, inclin- 
ing to the quarter. 
For the above reasons the conclusion is inevitable that the 
Kori, whether of Cutch or of Kathiawar, cannot be regarded as 
identical with the Surat Mahmidi. 
IV. Were the Strat Mahmidis the same as the silver coins 
of the Gujarat Saltanat ? 
No reason can be given why the Gujarat Saltanat coins should 
have remained current in the south of Gujarat, yet not in the 
north. Indeed, bearing in mind that during the declining years of 
the Saltanat, say, after the death of Bahadur in 1536, its coins 
probably all issued from a single mint—that of Ahmadabad—we 
may fairly assume that they would survive in circulation longer in 
the Ahmadabad, or northern, districts than in the south, It seems 
incredible that coins struck in Ahmadabad should be superseded 
there and yet be accepted as the currency of Sirat. 
It was in A.H. 980 (A.D. 1573) that Akbar conquered Gujarat 
and annexed it to his Hmpire. In that same year he issued coins 
in his own name from the Ahmadabad Mint, and we may safely 
affirm that thereafter he would permit no more coins to be struckin 
the name of the vanquished Sultan Muzaffar III. Save for the five 
months of A.H. 991 (A.D. 1583) when Muzaffar again held the 
sovereignty of Gujarat, the minting of coins of the independent 
Saltanat must have ceased in the year 1573, thus some sixty-five 
years before Mandelslo’s visit to Strat. Now it is surely most im- 
probable that during all these sixty-five years the coinage—never 
very plentifnl—of the conquered province of Gujarat should have 
