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HINTS TO COIN-COLLECTORS 
were placed in the field, with a scroll around bearing the value 
in English and Hindustani. A series of these coins were 
struck, consisting of a double and single pagoda in gold, and 
a half and quarter in silver, all following the same model 
(PI. IV, No. 59) and agreeing with the Hindu system, under 
which 8 kds went to the f anam and 42 f anams to the pagoda. 
No fraction of the fanam was, however, struck following 
the pagoda model, but coins were minted of the value of five, 
three, two, and one fanam, a specimen of 
PI. IV, No. 57. ' ^_ £, 
which i figure as No. o7. Two types 
of the whole series occur, differing, however, so slightly that 
it is unnecessary to describe them accurately. Each has on 
one side a scroll ending in a buckle with the value of the 
coin in English, the Hindustani equivalent occupying the 
centre, while on the reverse the scroll is surmounted by a 
star, the value of the coin in Telugu being in the centre and 
the same in Tamil rimning round. 
Local silver coins were also made for issue at some of the 
Company's factories, the commonest being those of TeUi- 
cherry, of which two types occur, each having the initial 
letter of the mint (T), and one the scales so common on the 
early copper coins both of Bombay and 
PI. IV, No. 58. ^ ^f^, 1 ,i J it, . 1 
Madi'as with the letter under the balance 
and date (1805) in the exergue. The other with, the name 
of the mint town in Persian, the T being placed on the 
obverse with 99 beside it. I had always looked upon this 99 
as being an abbreviated, form of the date 1799, but since the 
above was in the press I have seen a small goM coin exactly 
corresponding to the one here described, but with the date 
1801 in the exergue, the " 99 " still appearing at the top. 
To the issue struck at Pondicherry I have already alluded. 
The letter P here takes the place of the T, and the name of 
the mint town occui-s in Pei-sian as in the last. Canuanore 
also boasted, or is said to have boasted, of a similai- issue, 
though there appears some uncertainty about it. 
