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OCTOBER, 1899.) THE COPPER COINAGE OF MADRAS PRESIDENCY.
275.
95. A. 124. Similar to last, bat date Irir (1212 = 1797).
96. T. No. A. 87. 06. - Balc-mark.' R. – 1807.
97.: A. 125. 06. - United Company's Bale-mark, etc. - 1794. R.- Company's arms, etc..48 to one Rupee.'
98. A. 126. As last, but Company's crest only on R.
99. A. 127. As 97, bat date 1797.
100. A. 128.5 As 97, but smaller, and 96 to one Rupee.'
101. A. 129. As 100, but date 1797.
102. A. 131. 06. - Company's arms, etc., 1803. A.- Value in Persian and English, XX Cash.
103. A. 133. As 102, but smaller and X Cash.
104. A. 135. As 103, but smaller and V Cash.
105. A. 137. 06. - Company's crest - 1803. R. – Value in Persian and English, I Cash.
106. A. 132. As 102, but date 1808.
107. A. 134. As 103, bat date 1808.
108.° A. 136. As 104, but date 1808.
* These coins were struok for the Northern Circars. Atkins states that this coin was an attempt to assimilate the Mohammedan and Hindu monetary systems. Accepting this piece as equivalent to 20 Cash the Rupee becomes 960 Cash. The relations of the two systems were complicate By Government Order of December 9th, 1817, the following values were fixed :
Star Pagoda (Hindu) = 3; Rupees = 45 fanams 3,600 cash. Rupeo (Mohammedan) = 12 fanams + 68 cash = 1,028 cash.
Fanam 80 cash. According to above scale 34 Rupeos 8,698 cash which is sufficiently near to the Pagoda Value of 3,600 cash. Eventually the Mohammedan system prevailed.
. This series of 48, 96 to the Rupee, should be compared with the Ceylon series of 12, 24, 48 of 1801, and of 48, 96, 192 of 1802.
• The above series of 1808 and 1808 were minted in England, and in immense quantities. In 1810 there were reported to be 80,000 pagodas worth of these coins in Madras, and it was recommended that they be shipped to Bengal. They are still common in Madras and continued current until the general Indian Copper Coinage was introduced.
