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Weights, Measures and Coins, 



[Oct. 



equal to one guz i shah, the jureeb is about 60 or 70 feet square, or, if 

 measured by the guz i shah, it comes to 67 feet, and as a last resonrce : 

 taking a medium of all thes results, we have one jureeh = 70 feet 

 square. 



Coins. 



8 Kourees 

 4 Kusseera 

 2 Ghuz 



=== 1 

 = 1 



Kusseera. "J 



Pysa, (pookhta.) > Copper. 



Ditto. J 



5 Pysa 

 2 Shahee 

 2 Sunwar 



= 1 

 = 1 



Shahee. 1 Formerl silver but 

 Sunwar. > . .* 

 Abassee./ n0Wlma S mar y- 



3 Abassee or 12 



shahee = 1 



Rupee. — Silver. 



7 Rupees 

 6 Rupees 

 15 to 18 Rupees 



= 1 

 = 1 



= 1 



Tilla. 



Boodkee or ducat. 1 r u 



TT , e , > Gold corns. 



Ushurieeormohur. J 



20 Rupees 



= 1 



Tooman, (an imaginary money 

 like the Kory of Bombay.) 



The rupees and pice are either kham or kucha, or pookhta, i. e. puk« 

 ka, and where the former is not specified, the latter is always to be 

 understood. Their rates are as under. 



6 Pookhta rupees 

 6 Pysa khawm 

 72 Ditto 



= 1\ Kham rupees. 

 = 1 Shahee, or 

 = 1 Rupee. 



The Tooman i khawm is worth 18 \ rupees. 



In the time of Shah Shooja and Zuman Shah, there were six piee 

 pookhta current in a shahee, or 72 pice in a rupee, but they have been 

 lessened to 60 in a rupee by the present Ameer. The rupees have also 

 been reduced in weight by the present ruler, for Shah Zumanee rupees 

 now bring 14 shahees in the bazar. At present there is no silver 

 coin of lower denomination than a rupee ; but in the time of the late 

 monarchs of Afghanistan, the abassee, shahee and sunwars were of 

 silver. They are not coined any more. 



V. A general Table of Cabul, Indian and English Monies and 

 Exchange, showing the produce of the former country's currency in 

 Company's rupees at the present rate of exchange, i. e. 117 Cabul ru- 

 pees for 100 of the E. I. Company: and in pounds and shillings ster- 

 ling, at the commercial par of exchange, viz. 1 shilling 11.51 pence per 

 1 Bombay rupee, or 195 shillings per 100 Bhay Rs. 



