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and of a generally insignificant appearance. Tlie lettering, though 
as a rule legible enough, is never deeply engraven. 
Weight. Two denominations of these coins are known. The 
larger ones, of diameter ’6 inch, turn the scale at about 85 grains 
[Maximum 87; minimum, a poor specimen, 78]. Six smaller ones, 
measuring half an inch in diameter, have an average weight of 40'5 grains 
[Maximum 44 ; minimum 39]. Evidently these denominations repre¬ 
sent the half and the quarter rupee. 
Date. The earliest dated coin known of this series is of the year 
989 Hijri. Except the years 993 and 999, each succeeding year up to 
and including 1000 H. is represented in my collection. Then come 
the years 1006, 1009, 1012, 1014, 1016, 1019, 1020, 1025, 1026, and 
1027. Hence it seems probable that coins of this Gujarat fabric were 
struck each year from at least 989 till 1027. Then comes a blank 
for nearly two centuries, after which, strange to say, precisely the 
same type of coin re-appears, but now with the dates 1215 and 1217 H. (A. 
D. 1800 and 1802). The figures indicating the year are entered on all 
the coins near the right-hand lower corner of the square area of the 
obverse—over the jim of The figures appear as though 
lying on their face, having suffered rotation from the upright position 
through one quadrant to the left. One extraordinary specimen has the 
year 1026 in the normal place, but the reverse gives the year 1025 in 
the diametrically opposite corner—the left hand upper—of the corres¬ 
ponding square area. 
Legends. On all the coins the legends, or at least the portions 
within the areas are the same. Within a square area formed by 
double lines with dots between, the obverse legend reads 
«• ^ ^ 
£> ■3T /0 
The reverse, within a similar area, contains the Kalima arranged 
' 9 Q 
in the usual three lines 
all ill aifil 
*—♦—.s ' 0 
All the coins I have yet seen were evidently much smaller in 
surface than the die, and they show accordingly only mere fragments 
of the marginal readings. One undated coin in my possession does, 
however, read distinctly cuUxp, ‘Othman, in the upper margin of 
the reverse, and with this slender clue we may perhaps venture the 
