c. 1610.—"Les pièces d'or sont cherafins à vingt-cinq sols pièce."—Pyrard da Laval, ii. 40; [Hak. Soc. ii. 69, reading cherufins].
1653.—"Monnoyes courantes à Goa.
| "Sequin de Venise | 24 | tangues ([Tanga]) |
| * * * * * | ||
| Reale d'Espagne | 12 | tangues. |
| Abassis de Perse | 3 | tangues. |
| Pardaux ([Pardao]) | 5 | tangues. |
| Scherephi | 6 | tangues. |
| Roupies ([Rupee]) du Mogol | 6 | tangues. |
| Tangue | 20 | bousserouque ([Budgrook])." |
| De la Boullaye-le-Gouz, 1657, 530. | ||
c. 1675.—"Coins ... of Rajapore. Imaginary Coins. The Pagod ([Pagoda]) is 3½ Rupees. 48 Juttals (see [JEETUL]) is one Pagod. 10 and ½ Larees ([Larin]) is 1 Pagod. Zeraphins 2½, 1 Old Dollar.
"Coins and weights of Bombaim. 3 Larees is 1 Zeraphin. 80 Raies ([Reas]) 1 Laree. 1 [Pice] is 10 Raies. The Raies are imaginary.
"Coins and weights in Goa.... The Cruzado of gold, 12 Zeraphins. The Zeraphin, 5 Tangoes. The Tango (Tanga), 5 Vinteens. The Vinteen, 15 Basrooks (Budgrook), whereof 75 make a Tango. And 60 Rees make a Tango."—Fryer, 206.
1690.—
| dw. | gr. | |
| "The Gold St. Thoma | 2 | 5½ |
| The Silv. Sherephene | 7 | 4." |
| Table of Coins, in Ovington. | ||
1727.—"Their Soldiers Pay (at Goa) is very small and ill paid. They have but six Xerapheens per Month, and two Suits of Calico, stript or checquered, in a Year ... and a Xerapheen is worth about sixteen Pence half Peny Ster."—A. Hamilton, i. 249; [ed. 1744, i. 252].
1760.—"You shall coin Gold and silver of equal weight and fineness with the Ashrefees ([Ashrafee]) and Rupees of Moorshedabad, in the name of Calcutta."—Nawab's Perwannah for Estabt. of a Mint in Calcutta, in Long, 227.