Foreign exchange: India circa 183o

[Robert]

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This appears to be a transcription of a manuscript from 1826 in which someone has tabularized Indian coin equivalencies. For example, a "pie" is a very small coin of India. Apparently 5,750 pies are equivalent to 1 mohur plus 14 rupees plus 15 and 1/6 annas. Bet you didn't know that.

Note that a rupee was equivalent to an English florin. Also a ten-rupee gold coin equalled a British soverign gold coin (one pound) or four dollars in US gold.

Lots of other obscure weights/measures/conversion tables as well.

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