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maintained its standing as the recognised currency of the southern 
districts. 
We have already seen that the Sirat Mahmitdi was worth just 
about four-ninths of the Imperial rupee, hence, had both coins been 
of equally good silver, the Mahmitidi would have weighed 80 grains 
over against the 180 grains of the rupee. Its actual weight, how- 
ever, owing to the presence of a “‘ very base alley,’ must have been 
more than 80 grains, say between 85 and 90. Now, no silver coins 
of the Gujarat Saltanat are known of this weight: they are all 
either much lighter or much heavier. Of fifteen silver coins of 
Muzaffar III, now in my possession, the weights are as follow :— 
35, 36, 67, 70, 71, 72 (four), 73, 74, 110, 111, 112, and 114 grains. 
Of these not one could by any possibility be regarded as in value 
four-fifths of a Mughal rupee. 
Thus we are compelled to the conclusion that the Strat Mah- 
mudi was not identical with any silver coi of the Gujarat 
- Saltanat. 
V. Hf, now, this Mahmidi current in Strat was not the Persian 
Mahmidi, nor the Cutch or Kathiawar Kori, nor the Mahmidi of 
the Gujarat Saltanat, then, by the “ method of exhaustion,” it must 
have been the Coin of Gujarat Fabric—the only remaning type. 
The identity of these two is confirmed by the following considera- 
tions :— 
(a) All the Gujarat Fabric coins bear impressed the name ot 
Akbar, the conqueror of the province, and hence the 
Imperial Government would readily sanction the use 
of such coins for currency in a portion of the Empire. 
(6) The dates on these coins, ranging, so far as yet known, 
from A.H. 989 to 1027 (A.D. 1581-1618), bring 
them easily within the period to which the state- 
ments made regarding the Strat Mahmudi by Terry 
and Herbert and Mandelslo have reference. 
(c) One comes across these coins nowadays in the strip 
of country between Sitrat and Ahmadabad, but 
they are seldom found in Kathiawar or in North 
Gujarat. Thus it is the area in which the Strat 
Mahmidis were originally current that mainly sup- 
plies us at the present day with specimens of Guja- 
rat Fabric coins. 
(d) And—most important of all—the average weight of 
these Gujarat Fabric coins which now come to hand 
proves to be 85 grains. Hence we may infer the 
original weight to have been about 90 grains. Con- 
sidering both their base material and their weight, the 
money-value of such coins would bear to that of the 
Akbari or ordinary Jahangirt rupee a ratio of just 
about 12: 27—the ratio affirmed by Mandelslo to 
subsist between the Strat Mahmidi and the ‘ Ropia 
Chagam.” 
Tf, then, as the conclusion of the whole matter, we may regard 
