Administrative System of the Marathas c13.10

c13.10

Abashi must be Abasee of Fryer. Thevenot says that this coin was very common at Surat. The coin was of Persian origin and was named after Shah Abbas II according to Dr. Dalgado (*Glossario*, Vol. I, p. 4). Fryer says that in his time it was current at Calicut. "They (the people of Calicut) have yet a correspondence with Persia as may appear by their Abasees, a sixteen penny piece of silver, current among them" (*East India*, I, p. 143). According to Thevenot it was equivalent to 18 pence. *The Travels of Monseiur de Thevenot*, London, 1687, part III, p. 2. Dalgado says that Abassi was a silver coin of the value of about 300 reis (or 100 pice).