54 G. Bidie —The Pagoda or Yardha coins. [No. 1, 
struck by Hyder at Bangalore, and this bun is said to be distinguished by 
the name of “ Pedda-talei Bangaloorei.”* 
Ob. Figures of Siva and Parvati, with the trident and deer. 
Pev. A granulated surface with Hyder’s initial in the centre. 
Weight. — 52'8 grs. 
PL Ill, Fig. 28. This is a “ Sultani” pagoda, struck by Tippu. It 
will be observed that he discarded the old Ikkeri obverse with its obnoxious 
Hindu figures, and boldly adopted a new one of a type common to Muham¬ 
madan coinage. The reverse bears the initial of his father Hyder, with 
the numeral 4 indicating the year of Tippu’s reign, and also the word 
Nagar the place of mintage. There are several forms of this bun agreeing 
generally except as regards the mint towns, some having been struck at 
Puttun or Seringapatam, others at Dharwar &c. This specimen was coin¬ 
ed before Tippu introduced his reformed calendar, which runs from the 
date of the conversion of Muhammad, or 13 } r ears prior to the date of the 
Hejira. The date given is A. IT. 1200 which corresponds with A. D. 
1785 ; and as Hyder died on the 1st day of A. IT. 1197, the year of Tip¬ 
pu’s reign given, viz., the 4th, is correct. The retention of Hyder’s initial 
on the reverse was probably a mark of filial respect, on the part of Tippu, 
but he may have also been influenced by a desire not to change too abrupt¬ 
ly the reverse of the Ikkeri hun, coined by bis father. In another speci¬ 
men in the Museum struck at Dharwar, the date is A. H. 1216, that is 
according to the revised calendar, and the year of reign the Gth. 
Ob. JoUJ| 
i r * • 
Pev. j 
Weight.— 52*7625 grs. 
PI. Ill, Fig. 29. This coin is known as the “ Farokhi pagoda” and, 
according to Hawkes, “is supposed to have been so called by Tippu in 
honour of a new sect of this name.” Others state that it was so designat¬ 
ed from the circumstance, that Parolchi was a title of one of Muhammad’s 
successors. Marsden (Vol. II, p. 717) observes regarding the term “ on some 
of the copper money we shall find it to stand, apparently, for the name of 
a place, otherwise called New Calicut.” At first I was inclined to adopt 
the last suggestion, and there seems little doubt that in some cases the 
words Parolchi patan do indicate that the coin was struck at a fort near 
Calicut, which, according to Wilks, was called “ Ferrockhee.”f In other 
instances this cannot be the case. Thus on the hun described by Marsden, 
Part II, p. 716, the place of mintage given along with the word Farokhi is 
Hyder Nagar (Bednur). Probably the term was originally adopted as a 
* Hawkes’ “ Coinage of Mysore,” p. 5. 
t Wilk’s “ History of Mysore,” Vol. II, p. 180. Madras Edition of 1869. 
