Administrative System of the Marathas c18.s25.27

c18.s25.27

Its natural consequence was that no less than twenty-six different sorts of gold coins of different value were current in Shivaji's time, and "in an official table published for the guidance of the Civil Courts in the Bombay Presidency, the names of no less than thirty-eight gold coins and over one hundred and twenty-seven silver coins are mentioned as still so far current in different parts of this Presidency as to make it worth while to give the relative intrinsic values of these local currencies in exchange for the Queen's coin."¹²