S8 Notes on Indian Currencies. [no. 1, new series, 
Leyden, frequent mention is also made of money. 
1494* 
The memoirs commence with Baber becoming king 
of Fergana, near Bokhara and Samercand in Tartary. 
At page 28, speaking of his uncle Sultan Mahomed Mirza, he 
says, " He was well versed in calculation, and not a single dirhem 
" or dinar of his revenues was expended without his knowledge." 
The Translator adds, " the former is now of the value of 5^, and 
" the latter of about 9 shillings." 
At page 61, mention is made of a. " 1,000 tiimans of silver," to 
which Mr. Leyden has appended this not^?, " It is extremely difficult 
" to fix the value of money in remote periods. The Tuman in 
" Dalla Valle's time (1617) was 10 Zecchins (Voyages vol. IV. p 
" 357). Mendelshoe soon after values the Zecchin at 8J or 9 
" rupees ; which would make the Tuman of that day worth 9 or 
" £10 sterling. In Chardin's time, the tuman was equal to 45 livres, 
" and Tavernier makes it equal to 46 livres, 1 denier and or ac- 
*' cording to his English Translator at the then par of exchange of 
" 4s. Qd. for the French crown, £3 9*. and a fraction. Thelivre it 
" will be remembered like the tuman has been sinking in value. 
" Fryer (Travels p. 222) makes the Tuman £3 and a noble. 
" It was lately worth an English guinea and from incessant tam- 
" pering with the coin is now worth little more than 15 shillings. 
" As the decline has been constant, it was probably in Baber's time 
" worth more than the highest of these sums." 
" The Shahrukki was a silver coin of the value of 10c?. or \ld. 
" English, 2 J sliahrukkis being equal to a rupee in Akbar's time." 
" The Tang or Tenki was a small silver coin of which in Men- 
" delshoe^s time 14, 15 or 16 went to a pagoda. It was of the value 
" of about bd. and was formerly more. It has now declined to 
" about a \d. It seems to have been ^ of a dirhem. The Dam 
" was an Indian copper coin, -^V of a rupee." 
At page 80, in his memoirs of the transactions of the year 1499, 
it is written " he did not give any one a single danq^^ 
1499 AD. ^ J ^ a-> 
probably the same as Tang. Also " not a jiU from 
any other quarter reached him." Fils is explained to be a small 
copper coin. 
