OCT. — DEC. 1856.] Notes on Indian Currencies, 37 
*' be current in the Deccan, the Sultan was enraged ; and when they 
" persisted in the offence in spite of his remonstrances, he put all 
" the guilty to death, and restrained the business of exchange to 
" some Kuttevies, descendants of Dhellians, who had migrated to 
" Deccan. After this, the Bhamenee coins alone were current in 
" the Mahommedan dominions, but since the cessation of that dy- 
" nasty, the coins of the Hindoo princes have been allowed also to 
" pass universally. ^ 
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Again at page 23, describirtg the throne Firozeh of Sultan Mah- 
1357 A. D. mood Bhamenee who reigned in 1357, he says, 
the jewellers valued it «at a crore of oons which the Translator 
at p. 169 explains as being *'^hose coins called pagodas by Euro- 
" peans, a lac of which make somewhat above £40,000," in which 
case the pagoda is estimated at more than 3J rupees, the com- 
mon value assigned to it. Also at page 87, describing Firoze Shaw 
with his bride going to the camp of his father-in-law, he says, 
" The two princes rode on horseback together, between ranks of 
1407 A D " ^^^^^^^^^ hoys, and girls, who waved plates of gold 
" and silver flowers over their heads as they advanc- 
" ed, and then threw them to be gathered by the populace. Silver 
" flowers being small coins stamped with the figure of a flower 
" and still used in India to distribute in charity, and on occasions 
" thrown by the servants of the great among the populace." 
At page 175, Cowries are mentioned as well as another money 
called Laares, " Mohammed Shaw having heard frequent reports of 
" the vast wealth of Rajah Jehaun, sent for his trea- 
1481 A . D. 
" surer. The treasurer said, oh ! Sultan, my Lord had 
" two treasuries one of which he called the Sultan's — in this there 
*' are now 10,000 laares and 3,000 oons — the other he named the 
" treasury of the poor, in this there is a sealed bag containing 
" 3,000 laares. Whenever money come from his Jaghire, having 
" taken from the king's treasury the pay of his troops and stables, 
*' he gave the remainder to the poor, not reserving a coivrie for his 
" own use. 
In Baber's Memoirs written by himself, and translated by Mr. 
