Muntakhab al-tawarikh 49: The Coinage.

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[Text, vol. ii. p. 380.] [Among the edicts issued (in the thirty-seventh year of the reign), was one that all the dirhams and dinars bearing the devices of former kings should be melted and sold for the price of the gold and silver, so that not a trace of them should remain in the world. The various ashrafis and rupees of the Emperor's coinage, whether old or recent, were at once to be put in circulation, and no difference whatever between them and the old coins was to be recognized. Kalij Khán endeavoured to enforce this order. Sarráfs were every day called up; bonds were taken from them, and fines were inflicted on them. As a last resource, some were put to death. But for all this they did not refrain from counterfeiting the coin (kallábí). Orders and instructions upon this subject were written and sent to the most remote parts of the dominions, but without effect, until Khwája Shamsu-d dín Khwáfí, the díwán, succeeded in putting all these orders in force.]