COINAGE OF TEAVANCOEB. 
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Minted in native style witli punch, dies. This coin was 
struck in 1860. The fanam of four chuckrams was till 
then rather an imaginary coin and the gold kali fanam 
(No. 33) rare^ yet used in all small accounts^ chuckrams 
when counted being calculated in fanams. 
6. Silver Fanam. 
Obv. Same as the preceding surrounded by plain 
wreath and raised margin slightly milled. 
Eev. R, V. with elaborate wreath and raised border 
slightly milled. 
AR. Weight 23 -25- Size -58. Plate If., fig 5. 
This more modern and Europeau-like coin was struck 
two or three years after the preceding, with a scamping 
press received from England. 
R. V. are the initials of the Maharaja ll^ma Varma. 
7. Kaliyan VelU Panam, Cully Fanam. 
Device nearly same as that of No. 33, gold kali fanam. 
AR. Weight 30, size "o 
This is probably an earlier form of Nos. 5 and 6. 
8. Double Chuckram. 
Obv. Conch shell within circle of dots. 
Rev. Solomon's seal with legend, Tam.Patmanabhan 
and dotted circle. 
AR. Weight 12. Size -33. (Elliot, tig. 196). 
These coins were issued in 1810, but immediately dis- 
continued. 
9. Chuckram. 
Obv. The device so familiar on the chuckram and 
the silver and gold fanams, consisting of a small 
square figure above a horizontal crescent-shaped 
line, and underneath two vertical curved lines 
with dots between them, has been explained by 
Logan as above (Rasi) with reference to the 
twelve signs of the zodiac. In Travancore, 
