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" For change they make use of the small sea shells called cowries, " 80 of which make a poni and 60 or 65 ponis, according as there " are few or many cowries in the country, make a rupee. They " come from the Maldive islands. The money changers sit upon... "
Madras Journal of Literature and Science - Side 31
1853
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Voyages to the East-Indies, Volum 1

Johan Splinter Stavorinus - 1798 - 598 sider
...three per cebt below the ftandard, or Jrcca rupee. 2*. font, J poni ; and fixty, or fixty-five ^<j;/«, according as there are few or many cowries in the...country, make a rupee *. They come from the Maldive iQatids. The moneychangers fit upon all the bazars with quantities of them, to furnim the lower orders...
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The Journal [afterw.] The Madras journal of literature and science, ed. by J ...

Madras literary society - 1856 - 724 sider
...better suited to the wants of the people and to answer the purpose of a subsidiary coinage. Slavorinus in his voyage to the East Indies (vol. I. p. 401)...with change, for the purpose of necessaries." Again, *n- P 9] talking of the Surat currency the am- Author • in the same way u cowries are made use of...
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Madras Journal of Literature and Science, Volum 1

1857 - 348 sider
...consisted of a cheaper money. One can understand that much more use would be found for tokens of copper and such media, as better suited to the wants of the...with change, for the purpose of necessaries." Again, ; ."• 32 Notes on Indian Currencies. [NO. 1, NEW SERIES, (vol. III. p. 9) talking of the Surat currency...
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A Dictionary of Numismatic Names: Their Official and Popular Designations

Albert Romer Frey - 1917 - 338 sider
...of the small sea-shells called cowries, eighty of which make a poni, and sixty or sixty-five poriis, according as there are few or many cowries in the country, make a Rupee." See Poon. Ponti. A Sicilian money of account. By a regulation of 1823 the Tari were computed at any...
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History of the Coinage of the Territories of the East India Company in the ...

Edgar Thurston - 1992 - 178 sider
...make use of the small sea-shells called cowries,2 eighty of which make a poni, and sixty or sixty-five ponis, according as there are few or many cowries...make a rupee. They come from the Maldive Islands. The money-changers sit upon all the bazars with quantities of them to furnish the lower orders with change...
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American Journal of Numismatics and Bulletin of the American ..., Volumer 49-50

Frank Henry Norton, Charles Edward Anthon, William Sumner Appleton, Samuel Abbott Green, Jeremiah Colburn, William Theophilus Rogers Marvin - 1916 - 682 sider
...make use of the small sea-shells called cowries, eighty of which make a poni, and sixty or sixty-five ponis, according as there are few or many cowries in the country, make a Rupee." See Poon. Ponti. A Sicilian money of account. By a regulation of 1828 the Tari were computed at any...
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