Dicholi Mint
Coins were issued from the Dichloi mint by:
Moghuls |
Aurangzeb (but probably Maratha) |
History
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. Mt opinion is there is a
chance that these rupees may have been issued by different authorities under
different circumstamces. 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