A History of the Mahrattas v1.c15.91

v1.c15.91

² [The first mint in Bombay was established by Aungier in 1670 for the coinage of ‘rupees, pies and bujruks.’ Tavernier (1678) mentions the coinage by the English of silver, copper and tin at the time of his visit. The British Museum contains four early Bombay rupees, dated 1675, 1677 and 1678. In 1697 the value of the Bombay rupee was 2s. 6d. (B.C.G., iii. 299, 300.) There was a Bombay silver rupee issued in 1667 with the inscription, obverse, *Mon. Bombay. Anglic. Regims. A°7°*; around, *A. Deo. Pax. & Incrementum.* Another undated, but issued soon after; obverse, a shield of arms between two wreaths; reverse, in centre, *Pax Deo*; around, *Moneta Bombaiensis.* (Thurston, *History of the Coinage of the Territories of the East India Company in the Indian Peninsula* (1890), p. 21.)]