6 An account of the Money of Asia. Part II. 



fince the preterit Kins; of England married the Princels of Portugal, who had 

 m part of her Portion the famous Port of Bombeye, where the EngUJh are 

 , very hard at work to build a hrong Fort, they eoin both Silver, Copper 

 and Tinn. But that Money will not go at Surat, nor in any part of the Great 

 Mogul's Dominion?, or in any of the Territories of the Indian. Kings ; only it 

 pall'es among the Englip in their Fort, and fome two or three Leagr.es up 

 in the Country, and in the Villages along the Coait ; the Country people that 

 bring them their Wares, being glad to take that Money • othenvitc they would 

 fee but verv little itirring, in regard the Country is very poor, and the people 

 have nothing to fell but Aqua vitx, made of Coco-Wine and Rice. 



Fig. 3. and 4. is the Gold Money which the Hollanders coin at Palicate 

 which is a Fort that they pofieis upon the Coait of Coromandcl. Thofe pieces 

 are alio eall'd Pagods, and are of the fame weight with the others ; but for 

 the goodnefs, I think they are better by two or three in the hundred than 

 thofe of the Kings and Raja's of the Country, or which the EngUjk make. 

 I made this obfervation, being at the Diamond- Mines, and in other parts of 

 the Indies where there is any great Trade. For the firit thing they" ask you 

 is, whether you have any Pagods of JPelicate ; and if you have, you /peed much 

 better in your bufinefs. 



Fig. 5*, and 6. is a Roupy of Silver, which the Hollanders coin at J'eUcate 

 being of the fame weight with thole which the Great Mogul, or the Kings of 

 Golconda and F'ifapour make. It has in the middle upon one fide the mark of the 

 Holland Company, todiifinguifh it from others. The Hollanders Roupies of Silver 

 are quite contrary to their Pagods 0^ Gold, which are more cfteemed by the In- 

 dians than thofe of the Princes of the Country. For they make far Ids account 

 of thefe Roupies of Silver ; and if you pay any great liuri in thefe pieces 

 though the Silver be as good as the others, you mult lofe one half per Cent. 



Fig. 7, and . is the Hollanders final 1 Copper-Money, wherewith they or- 

 dinarily pay their Soldiers. It has upon one fide the mark of the Company. 

 And indeed the Hollanders, who mind nothing but their profit, had great reafon 

 to obtain leave to coin Money j for bringing only Gold from fapan, from* Af*> 

 cajfir only Gold in Powder, and from C "». Gold in Ingots, ana fellipa all 

 thefe to the Bankers, they found that they toft five or Ux per Cent, which 

 proceeded from the miftruit of the Changers, and the chief of the Facto- 

 ries belonging to the Company. Now they fhun that lols, and make the fame 

 profit which the Bankers did, coining all thele mcttals into money. Though 

 in every Voyage which they make to 'fapa,;, they generally lole one Vefiel 

 bv ftorm ; yet fome years they make five or fix Millions of Livres profit, 

 all freights difcharged , and hazards efcaped. But that profit is quite loft] 

 fince their lofs of the Ifland of Formcja. 



The Money of the King of Chcdz and Pera. 



THis Money is of Tin, and is coin'd by the King of Cbeda and Pera. He 

 coins no other Money than Tin. Some years he found tut feveral Mines, 

 which was a great prejudice to the EngUJh. For the Hollanders and other 

 Merchants buy it, and vend it over all Afia. Formerly the EngUJh brought 

 it out of England, and furnifhed great part of Afia, where they confum'd a 

 vaft quantity ; they carried it a&j into all the Territories of the Great Alogul, 

 as alfo into Perfia and Arabia-, for all their Difhes are of Copper, which tney 

 came to be Tinned over every month. Among the meaner fort of people, there 

 is little to be feen but this Tin-money, and the Shels eall'd Con j which J 

 have fpoken of already. 



Fig. 1, and 2. is that great piece of Tin, which weighs an <*fcnce and a half, 

 and in that Country goes for the value of two of our Sous. But in regard 

 that Tin 16 there at 14 Sous a pound, it is not worth above one Sous and 



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