io An account of the Money of Asia. Part H 



Fig. 2. Weighs two ounces, three drams and an half: the whole comes to eight 

 Livres, ten Sous, and feven Deneers. 



Fig. 3. Weighs once ounce, half a dram, and twelve grains : the whole comes 

 to four Livres, five Sous, and five Deneers. 



Fig. 4. Weighs one ounce, eight grains : the whole comes to three Livres ten 

 Sous, and an eleven Deneers. 



Fig. $. Weighs feven drams, one quarter, and feven grains : the whole comes 

 to three Livres, eight Sous, and eight Deneers. 



Ftg. 6. Weighs two drams and an half, and twenty four grains : the whole 

 comes to one Livre, five Sous, and one Deneer. 



Fig. 7. Weighs two drams, twenty four Deneers : the whole comes to one 

 Livre, nine Deneers. 



Fig. 8. Weighs one dram and an half, and twenty four grains : the whole comes 

 to fixteen Sous, and four Deneers. 



Fig. 9. Is the Copper-Money which they thread by fifteen, thirty, fifty 

 to the number of 600. which is the value of a Tell in Silver. Over all fapon they 

 reckon by Tells : and the Hollanders reckon, that a Tell makes three G elders 

 and an half of their Money, which comes to four Livres, and five Sous of 

 ours. 



Fig. io. Is the back-fide of the Copper-piece. 



Money that represents the Figures of the twelve Signs ; and which 

 were Coined during the twenty four hours, that Gehan-guir, King of 

 the Indians, permitted Queen Kourmahall, his Wife, to Reign in his 

 fiead. 



OVltan Selim, otherwife called Gehanguir Vatcha, the ninth King of the Indi- 

 Y *ns t Father of Cha-gehan 3 was a great Lover of Women : but he had a par- 

 ticular arTeftion for one among the reft, which he kept in his Seraglio j and which 

 he had Efpous'd, as meriting more than ordinary. She was a Woman of a Sublime 

 Wit, and very liberal j and (he knew fo well how to plcafe the King's humour, and 

 to divertize him, that he could not live without her. She had two Names ; the 

 one was Nour~gehan-begum y which fignifies the light of the World j and this' was 

 the Name which was engraven upon her Signet : for as I have obferv'd in my 

 Relations, they never Sign any thing, but only fct their Seals. The other Name, 

 by which me was call'd at Court, was Nour-mahall, which fignifies the Light of 

 the Seraglio. She was always a great enemy to the King's two^Sons ; more efpe- 

 cially to the fecond , who was called Sultan Kourom : and who afterwards 

 coming to the Throne, called himfelf Cha-gehan. He fet himfelf to oppofe all the 

 defigns of this Princefs : who, for her part, had fuch an Afcendant over the King, 

 that (he perfwaded him to fpend the greateft part of the year in the Country, un- 

 der-hand foliciting certain Rajas upon the Frontiers to rife againft him, that flic 

 might engage him in the Wars, and keep him from the company of his Sons. This 

 Queen, being altogether Ambitious, made it her bufinefs to pleafe the Kin** that 

 fhe might the more eafily accomplifh her defigns $ and having a great defire to 

 eternize her Memory, fhe could not think of a better way, than to Coin a good 

 quantity of Money in her own Name : and of a different framp from that which 

 the Indian Kings were wont to Coin. For you mult take notice, that all the Coins 

 of thofe Kings have only the Characters of the Countrey upon each fide of the 

 Piece. But this Queen caus'd one of the twelve Signs to be ftamp'd upon 

 upon each fide of Hers, which is contrary to the Law of Mahomet, that forbids all 

 manner of reprefentations. However, fhe had never brought her defign about, 

 had Sultan Kourom been at Court. But fhe took her time, when the King had 

 caus d the eyes of his eldeft Son,Sultan Xofrou to be put out,becaufc he had taken 

 up Arms againft him, with an intention to depofe him from his Throne. For after 

 he had obtain'd that Victory, he fen: his fecond Son, Sultan Kourom, kito Dec**, 



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