────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Name of the Rupee Weight Name of the Rupee Weight in pure in pure Grs. Grs. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Akabari of Lahore 175·0 Delhi Sonat 175·0 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Akabari of Agra 174·0 Delhi Alamgir 175·0 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Jehangiri of Agra 174·6 Old Surat 174·0 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Jehangiri of 173·6 Murshedabad 175·9 Allahabad ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Jehangiri of Kandahar 173·9 Persian Rupee of 1745 174·5 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Shehajehani of Agra 175·0 Old Dacca 173·3 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Shehajehani of 174·2 Muhamadshai 170·0 Ahamadabad ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Shehajehani of Delhi 174·2 Ahamadshai 172·8 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Shehajehani of Delhi 175·0 Shaha Alam (1772) 175·8 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Shehajehani of Lahore 174·0 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── [pg 5] The table on p. 4 of the assays of the Moghul rupees shows how the coinage throughout the period of the Empire adhered to the standard weight of 175 grs. pure.¹¹ ⁹ According to the Mohammedan historian, Khafi Khan, it enraged the Emperor Aurangzeb when the East India Company in 1694 coined some rupees at Bombay “with the name of their impure king” (_Imperial Gazetteer of India_, Vol. IV, p. 515). ¹⁰ It is stated in the _Imperial Gazetteer of India_ (Vol. IV., p. 514), that in the early days of the Moghul rule there was only one Mint—at Delhi—which struck the Imperial coins. The Emperor Sher Sha was the first to introduce a plurality of Mints for coinage purposes—a practice continued and extended by the later emperors until between the reigns of Akbar and Bahadur Sha II the Mints numbered about 200. From the _East India Moral and Material Progress Report for_ 1872–73 it is clear that not every Mint was open to the coinage of all three metals, gold, silver and copper; but that some Mints coined only gold, others silver, and the rest copper (_see_ Report, pp. 11–12). ¹¹ Prinsep, J., op. cit., p. 18.