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CURRENCY AND COINAGE AMONG THE BURMESE.
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(b) Troy Weights.
OOST 3
1775
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1775
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...... Stevens, Guide: pp: 51, 184. ---
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------- Stevens, Guide, pp. 51, 121.
gun 68 ... 2 vall. .... 40 tola (rupee).
........... Cochaba .... ...
... 1
.
6 .. 2 4 0
chow5 grs. (rutty) vall dor.. tola.......
8
2
1412v) Citiloiss (c) Avoirdupois Weights...
1789
1775)
c. 1833
A. Hamilton, Eost Indies,
Vol. II., Appx., p. 6.
Steven Guido suwit
I' e blog 9
Prinscp, Useful Tables,
p. 115.
tank
pice ilgio v
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21 pice 30 sêr
sear..." 40 maand 20-candy
30 seer..." 46°man (28 lbs.)
... ...
40 man (28 lbs.)
20 candy
... ***
20 khindi
0.-Malabar. (a) Money.
2:)
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quoting Barrett
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1510 1520
..1584!akul of (141808 total 3 Yule, Hob.-Job., s. v. nardao, Yule, Hob. Job, v, pardao, Yule, Hol-Job quoting Correa.7
Darilao, Yule, H60..18, 4. 1 quoting Barbosa,
pitrdito, quoting Barret,
quoting Linschoten.
12 cepayqua (sapèque). ....dato w widqubov A () 2 rey .. ... ... reis ... 2 bazaruco .. .. ............ .. 1-20 damma69 ...
15 Vintin 90 pardao ..
. tardo ! IT11' 3 6
. C
. .
...tangni (larin) 5 seraphiin .......... 5 parda 7 (xeraphin)73
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...
2 ducat
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No doubt for ja, barleycurn. 6 This term inexplained at 312 of Venkatsavini Row's Tanjore, 1883, in the core of a rather interesting note on weights and mennes :-"The theoreticali uniti dr weight is the seed of the exprecatorex (sic), calfcut it Tamil kuntimani and in Hindistoni gonz, and of these sced# 32 are supposed to be bjual to the pouderary value of a pagoda." Gunze is, therefore, gurja. ..072 vinten-=1 barguuym.....
m . Who comiat Puthin ' e I. e., vinten.
ut
. 10 AT
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and s: 10 and 9 langhe. -- 1 ducat.... 71 7 ond Starijn zs. 1 pagoda.
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78 Also 6. 15 8 testone = 1 parda : : book
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