OCT. — DEC. 1856.] Notes on Indian Currencies. 45 
Twenty-nine varieties of the Hyderabad Assigned* Districts with 
an average touch of 80. 
The highest being the Chandore Rupee, 92. 
The lowest the New Narrinpett Rupee, 74.86. 
T\' enty-six varieties from Scinde with an average touch of 86. 
The highest being the Tuttaee Old Rupee, 98.23, current at Sha- 
bunder, Dhurraza, Succara and Kekrola. 
The lowest the Hydrabadee Rupe,e, 69.^0. 
Fourteen from the PunjaubJ with an average touch of 88. 
The highest being the Sha Jehan Rupee, 97.76. 
The lowest the Gooncl*ashye Rupee, 75.52. 
These examples will serve t^ exhibit the state of the currency 
before the establishment of Mints by the E. I. Company. That 
these were all the varieties of coins, and that there were not legi- 
ons of others up and down India, I must not for a moment be sup- 
posed to put forward. Only the other day Mr. Seton Carr in his 
speech to the Court of Proprietors upon the policy of granting 
Lord Dalhousie a pension, mentioned that the Company's Rupee 
had supplanted some 60 different kinds of currency in the Punjaub 
alone, and I imagine the varieties there are not more numerous 
than in other parts of India. 
* In 1852, the Nizam's^overnment sent down a number of Uncurrent Coins 
weighing 9, -51.166 Tolas U P. to be assayed and valued at Madras, in order 
that their net outturn in Company's Kupets might be taken in pa^ment of the 
N:zam'> del)t t') the British Government. Subjoined is the result of the operati- 
on givtn by Major J. T. Smitti, the Mint Master at that time, stiowin^ the net 
Outturn to be 8,14,203 Ks. 14 A. 7 P., exclusive of Seignoratie and Ketinaoe. 
Gross weight. 
Before Melt- After Melt- 
ins, ins. 
As per Assay Master's outturn Reports, dated 3rd Septem- 
ber and 30th October 
Standard 
Weight. 
Tolas A. P. Tolas A. P. 
.1,166 8 0 9,49,899 8 0 8.39,563 10 
Rg. A. P. 
Outturn Value. Net Outturn 
Value. 
Rs. A. P.; 
8,o9,.563 9 0, 8,14,203 14 7 
In Col. Smith's Report also, upon the various points of enquiry regarding the 
Madras Mint, suggested by the Governmetit of India, the Hydrabad Cunency is 
alluded to in these words, (para 42 ) *' An extensive Coinage will probably be 
" required to rectify the indescribahle coyifusion of the Hydrabad Currency. Ita 
" value is, I believe, estimated at from 2 to 3 Crores, which with a due proportion 
" of small Silver and Copper coins, would require a coinage of 17 or 18 crores of 
" pieces." 
