RUPEE. 



under Madras rupee ; alio copper cafiies, and dudus, a 

 copper coin, 20 of which are reckoned to a fanam. Gold 

 and filver are weighed by the feer, pagoda, rupee, and 

 fanam. A feer weighs 245 rupees, 8 if pagodas, or 73 if 

 fanams. A rupee weight equals 30 fanams, or 480 nellos ; 

 a pagoda weight, 9 fanams, or 144 nellos. Thus 3 rupees 

 are equal in weight to 10 pagodas. 



At Scindy, the coins current are filver rupees of 16 

 annas, or 48 copper pice. At Surat, accounts are kept in 

 rupees of 16 annas, or 64 pice. The coins are mohurs or 

 gold rupees, and filver rupees, with halves and quarters. 



A gold rupee pafles for 15 filver rupees. Here are alio 

 pezas or pice, of copper or lead, 64 of which are r< ckoned 

 to one filver rupee. See the coins under Bombay, fupri. 



At Tranquebar, accounts are kept in rixdollars of 12 

 fanams, and alfo in rupees of 8 fanams ; and the fanam is 

 divided into 80 cam. The coins are filver rupees, double 

 and fingle fanams, and copper dudus or ca(h. Rupees are 

 here coined under fuch regulations, that 1302 of them are 

 worth 600 old Spanifli dollars, weighing 43 lb. 7 oz. 2 dwt. 

 troy. The value of the Tranquebar rupee is therefore 

 245 d. Iterling. 



The following Table fhews the AlTay and Value of Rupees. 



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