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The following are tlie relative values of the various 
Portuguese coins that have found currency in India : — 
30 Eeis = 1 Meia Tanga. 
60 Eeis = 1 Tanga. 
2| Tangas = 1 Meia Pardao. 
2 Meia Pardaos = 1 Pardao. 
2 Pardaos = 1 Rupia. 
In addition to the coins I have already mentioned, the 
Venetian sequin (the Sanar-kdsu of the natives) was also 
current in Goa and the neighbouring parts. This thin 
gold coin (PI. Ill, No. 42) is stiU found 
PI. Ill, No. 42. f . ^ ' . 
m considerable numbers m the south, 
though not in great variety, the only names of Doges as 
yet recorded being those of Paul Eayner, Pat Grrimani, Joan 
Oornei, Aloi Mocen, and Ludovic Manin. This coin is almost 
exactly similar to one struck by the Roman Senate in the 
twelfth century and now in the British Museum, which is thus 
described : obv. " S. PETRUS SENATOR YRBTS " St. 
Peter delivering a banner to a kneeling senator ; rev. "ROMA 
CAPUT MUNDI, S. P. Q. R." the Saviour in aureola, 
holding a book." In weight they vary from 51 to 55 grains. 
Exactly similar pieces also occur in copper ; but I question 
whether they are coins at all, it being more probable that 
they are merely imitations struck as ornaments to be worn 
by native women : for the gold coins, of which they ai-e 
faithfiil copies, are held in some veneration by the natives of 
the south, who have connected some cmiously interesting 
legends with them. 
The issues of the Danish mint at Trauquebar are also 
fairly common, and consist chiefly of fom'-casli pieces in 
copper and far more rarely of ten easli in .''ilver and coppor. 
All bear on one side the initial or monogram of the reigning 
monarch and on the other in the earlier coins the monogram 
of the Company as shown in PI. Ill, No. 43, with two 
figures of the date on either side, and in the later issues 
