| 单词 | gold mohur |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgold mohur More fully gold mohur. A gold coin used in India from the 16th cent. onward. Also called dinar.Mohurs worth 15 rupees were struck by the government of British India from 1835 to 1891; as legal tender, they were superseded by the British sovereign in 1891. The mohur continued to be used in Indian states outside direct British rule until the 1930s. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > coins of Indian subcontinent fanam1555 St. Thomas' coin1559 pardao1582 seraphin1582 chequina1587 pagody1588 pagoda1598 tanga1598 mahmudi1612 rupee1612 mohur1614 tola1614 lakh1615 picec1617 sicca rupee1619 rupee1678 anna1680 cash1711 R1711 star pagoda1741 pie1756 sicca1757 dam1781 dub1781 hun1807 swamy-pagoda1813 chick1842 re1856 paisa1884 naya paisa1956 poisha1974 1614–15 T. Elkington Bk. for Sondry Remembrances (India Office Rec. G/40/25) f. 96 Of gould viz...Mahoores..of 25. ropees the peere. 1621 E. Heynes & R. Hutchinson Let. 6 Nov. in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 320 To which wee answered..that wee weare commaunded to deliver him these articles, which wee then presented, accompanied with a moore in gould (five rup[ees]). 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. iv. iv. 431 Hee gaue Mohors of Gold. c1680 T. Bowrey Geogr. Acct. Countries Bay of Bengal (1905) 217 Gold Moors..are of the same Stampe, magnitude and weight the Silver ones are, but, beinge gold of the highest Matt, they passe very currant at 151/ 4 and 15 1/ 2 rupees each. 1696 J. Ovington Voy. Suratt 219 The Gold Moor, or Gold Roupie, is valued generally at 14 of Silver; and the Silver Roupie at Two Shillings Three Pence. 1763 L. Scrafton Refl. Govt. Indostan 124 The Colonel therefore sent..a present of five hundred gold mohurs [foot-note, about £1000 sterling]. 1776 Depositions 17/1 in Trial J. Fowke 15000 rupees in mohurs. 1801 Encycl. Brit. Suppl. II. 265/1 Moher, in Bengal, a gold coin, worth about 33 shillings. 1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility I. x. 119 Nabobs, gold mohrs, and palanquins. View more context for this quotation 1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son II. xxvi. 218 I contrived to realize a few bags of gold mores, and rupees. 1849 E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 201 An offering of one hundred gold muhars (one hundred and fifty pounds). 1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 9 The good players are playing high. Gold mohur points. 1882 F. M. Crawford Mr. Isaacs xiii. 280 A few rupees in silver, and there are two hundred gold mohurs in this bag. 1920 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 120/2 A fine of one gold Mohr must be recorded. 1937 Times 25 Oct. 13/3 Each Durbari advanced to the dais and presented his nazar, consisting of a gold mohur on a silk handkerchief, [etc.]. 1994 Coin News May 22/2 There was considerable interest in an Indian gold mohur of Jahangir. < as lemmas |
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