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SEPTEMBER, 1897.] CURRENCY AND COINAGE AMONG THE BURMESE.
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7 and 8 tangas For when they buy and sell pearls, stones, golde and silver and horses, they name but so many pardawes, and then you understand that one pardaw is sixe tangas bat in other ware, when you make not your bagain beforehand, but plainly name pardawes, they are pardawes xeraphins of 5 tangas the piece." - Linschoten, ch. 35.
1599-1602. Tankah Akbar Shahi struck at Bairatah, (year) Ilahi 44 (month) Amardâd. .. Akbar Shahi one tanki, (year) Ilahi 47 (month) Tir, struck at Agrah Tankah Akbar Shahi 16th part, (year) Ilahi [?] (month) Khurdad." Moghuls, p. 54 f. [legends translated].
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c. 1609. "So we could not get our money till next six days before we left the place; and for fear lest any should take it from us, we gave it to the goaler's wife to keep for us, my companion and I contracting with her to be fed for one tangue a day each. This tangue is worth seven sons and a half there (Goa) or five sous here (France).". Pyrard de Laval, E. T.
Vol. II. p. 21.
c. 1610. Y. . v. Budgrook." Il y en a de plusienrs sortes. La première est appellée bousuruques dont il en faut 75 pour une tangue. Il y a d'autre bousuruques vieilles, dont il en faut 105 pour le tangue." Pyrard de Laval, Vol. II. p. 39.
c. 1610."The silver money of Goa is perdos, larins, tangues, the last named worth 7 sols 6 deniers a piece."- Pyrard de Laval, E. T., Vol. II. p. 69.
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1615. Y. 8. v. tanga. "Their moneys in Persia of silver are the of copper, like the tangas and pisos of India.". Richard Steele in Purchas, Vol. I. p. 543.
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c. 1621. "Mirza Jânî Bêg Sultan [in Sind] made this agreement with his soldiers, that every one of them who should bring in an enemy's head should receive 500 gabars, every one of them worth 12 miris, called in the Mir's time pôstania, of which 72 went to one tanka.". Tarikh-i-Tahiri in Elliot, Vol. I. p. 287.
1636. The Mony of Muscovy
The greatest piece is worth but a peny and is called a Copec or Denaing."32 Olearius, Travels, p. 97.
1638.Their [at Surat] ordinary way of accompting is by lacs, each of which is worth 100,000 ropias, and 100 lacs make a crou or carroa [karôṛ], and ten carroas make an areb [arba]. A Theil of silver [? read gold] makes 11, 12 or 13 ropias, current money. A massas [masha] and a half make a Theil of silver, ten whereof make a Theil33 of gold. They call their brass and copper-money Tacques."- Mandelslö, Travels, p. 86.
1639,"[At Goa] they are made of Tinne and Latin [? of Spelter: latin being for brass French laiton] mixt together, and eight of these Basarucques make a ventin, whereof five make a tanghe... Five Tanghes make a serafin of silver and six Tanghes make a pardai. . They have also santemes [ = S. Thomas] of 16 Tanghes and Pagodes of 14, 15 and 16 Tanghes." - Mandelslö, Travels, p. 107.
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1653. Y. s. v. Xerafine in Supplt. "Monnoyes courantes à Goa. Sequin de Venise, 24 tangues . Reale d'Espagne, 12 tangues. Abassis de Perse, 3 tangues, Pardaux, 5 tangues. Scherephi, 6 tangues. Roupies du Mogol, 6 tangues. Tangue, 20 bousserouque." De la Boullaye-le-Gouz, p. 530.
1659.Professor Wilson gives a plate of some specimens of 397 larius found at Sangamêsvara, in the Ratnagiri Collectorate, in 1846. ... read the legend of one side as Sultan Ali Aadal Shah' and of the other Zarb Lâri Dângh Sikka,' i, e., 'Struck at Lâri' (or rather a Larf' as Mr. Thomas suggests 'stamped tanga'), and of the date. A. H. 1071, i. e., A. D. 1659. Notwithstanding this legend, the probability is that the coins were struck at Bijapur."- Gray, Pyrard de Laval, Vol. I. p. 233 f.
31 This may, however, merely go to prove Yule's assertion in Hobson-Jobson, s. v. copeck, that the copeck dinár kapaki, the word denaing being taken as a misprint for denarij.
35 Theil here seems to be tola and may at last give a derivation for the much disputed tael.
