Dicholi Mint
Coins were issued from the Dichloi mint
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Not sure about distinguishing between
Wadi, Nipani, Dicholi and Chikodi
Posted on SACG by Satya:
In ONS 188, Shailen wrote an
article labeled "The Rajapur mint and coinage in
In this article, he
discusses towards the end, Aurangzeb rupees from Dicholi. He attributes a coin
with Aurangzeb RY 35 to Dicholi. Then he discusses a coin dated RY 36 or 37
(2nd digit missing) which has the Dicholi mint name in the normal manner, and
says a regnal year 41 coin of the same type served as the prototype for various
Maratha mints such as sawantwadi, nipani, kapsi, mudhol etc.
I have uploaded a dicholi
coin of Aurangzeb clearly dated RY 31, in the Photos section in
"Satya" directory, link is:http://ph.groups.
My question is quite simple:
If there was an Aurangzeb
Dicholi rupee dated ry 31 of the "normal" style that I've uploaded,
and again there were rupees of RY 36/37 of the "normal" style also of
Dicholi, why would there be a reason to have an "abnormal" rupee of
quite different calligraphy in an interim RY 35? Just based on this, and in
light of the rupee scan I've uploaded, I am inclined to say the RY 35 that
Shailen thought would be from Dicholi, is probably not, and remains unread???
Posted on SACG by
Firstly, thanks for
uploading the RY 31 rupee of Dicholi with the 'normal' layout - this is indeed
the earliest of the RYs I have seen for Dicholi and as such a very welcome
addition to our knowledge. As for why the legend layout was changed only for RY
35 - with 'Dicho' written after 'Julus' and the 'Li' inscribed in the 'lazy'
form above 'Zarb' - one could only speculate. My opinion is there is a chance
that these rupees may have been issued by different authorities under different
circumstances. But I would not regard the change in the layout alone to doubt
the reading of the mint-name as 'Dicholi'.
So far, only two pieces of
the RY 35 Dicholi rupee are known to me. One is the piece which I published in
JONS 188, which is now in the Ashmolean Collection and the other is a piece
illustrated as #2278 of the
Although the Ashmolean coin
is in an overall better state of preservation, the