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COINAGE OP TEAVANCOEE. 
the appearance of the dots on one side of the coins^, the 
four prolonged dots being the good^ the ordinary sized 
ones the middling, and four tiny dots placed separately in 
a corner by themselves the four bad signs. The other 
emblems are not understood." 
For a long time past the Travancore Rasi has been an 
almost extinct and nominal coin but used as the standard 
in transactions relating to landed property^ where it is 
calculated at 10 chuckrams. It is said to date from the 
seventh or eighth century''' probably referring to its use 
in Malabar. Lately recoined in Travancore, it is now pro- 
curable at the Treasury. 
There are also other Rasis which appear to have been 
struck by minor chieftains, as Rasi of Valliyil PuUi '^Chief- 
tain or house ; " and Shara Rasi (Elliot, 189) with same obv. 
and rather different rev. 
29 Ananta rdya panam, Trevandrum I'asi fanam. Design 
same as that on the silver chuckram and probably the 
same dies are used for both, 
AV. Weight 57. Size "28. 
Ananta is a portion of the name of Trevandrum ; Haya 
seems equal to rasi though it is sometimes corrupted mto 
r^ma. 
Coined about 1790 by Dewan Raja Kesava Das ; and in 
1881, 10,000 were minted. Horsley in 1839 says it was 
= 3i to 1 Madras rupee. 
30: Half Anantaravian jjanain o]' Chinua (lirtle) panam. 
Nearly same design as No. 29. 
AV. Weight 3. Size '25. 
Issued about 1790 with No. 29. 
31. Veerardiia piuiam. 
Obv. A curious sign somewliat like a pistol (^whicli 
also appears on the Cochin coius^i with 12 dots 
above and 2 below. 
