90 C. J. Rodgers — Jahdngirs Moliurs and Bupees. [May & June, 



I may meut-iou that I met at the shop of Kiratally, one of the most 

 enterpi"izing native Coin CoUectoi's in India, a man from Kanouj, who, 

 when he obtained a rare coin, always carefully copied it, and sold his 

 cojDies to the public. I have seen numbers of his forgeries Kiratally was 

 a perfect Flint Jack, and could turn out flint flakes, cores, and arrow- 

 heads which could hardly be distinguished from genuine. He was a 

 first-rate workman, and liad there been a larger field in India for the 

 sale of stone implements might have emulated that misguided indi- 

 vidual." 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Coins Stipplementary to Thouias' Chronicles of the Patlian Kings 

 of Delhi, No. 5. — By C. J. Rodgers, Esq., Honorary Numismatist to the 

 Government of India. 



The jjaper will be published in the Journal, Part I. 



2. Jahanglr's Mohurs and Rupees, — By C. J. Rodgers, Esq., Hono- 

 rary Numismatist to the Government of India. 



I. I have just come across a passage in the " Tozuk-i-Jahangiri " 

 which I marked years ago, but which had quite escaped my memory Avhen 

 I wrote my "Catalogue of the Coins of the Mogul and Suri Empei'ors 

 of India," for the Pan jab Government. It is in the chapter headed 

 c)y}*ib j^p..a. ji ^il<i> Jjj^^ j^i*:a. and runs thus, at page 96 of the 'Aligarh 

 Edition of 18(34, edited by the Hon'ble Sir Say id Ahmad, K.C.I E. 

 j^'° i^'jjfj- LS^j ^-^ '^^■*^^^ c>i^J »:>j^il »;^J ^J^ J 'tbi?- u^^'^ f^^* 



fjlL C:-.J;itli) ldj.'(.vji(.5 yii ti <>J;^«j v_J^T*^ f^' C»:'' )^ ^^^ ^'^'" &S^'^\ ^>::>J\ ) 



^Ji^J}■^'t ) '-^•J:*^-',' 2?*t ^i^^J^ i:Jj'^ i>."!ib (3^'-«» (^ij^J *i.^jj j^f* *^ vi-^j^jfj^i 

 >) M« O'i.^J /ciijl /♦A^j'j *^ (J'"^ ■^-J J' *^ (*^J^ i*^^ >-:;^.wt j|^J=x« (jj.hL 



This passage is exceedingly valuable. At page 5 he gives an ac- 

 count of the coins he ordered to be struck. Tlie silver coins he men- 

 tions are of 100 tolas, 50 tolas, 20 tolas, 10 tolas, 5 tolas, 1 tola, ^ tola, 

 J tola, (nisar) -Yo^h. of a tola. He does not mention any coin of more 

 than a tola, except multiples. I*^ow, in all Coin Catalogues there are 

 rupees of Jahaugir weighing from 210 to 221 grains ; whereas his usual 

 rupees weigh only about 176 grains. The Mohurs of his early years, 

 too, run up to 210 grains, as against the usaal weight of 168 grains. 

 The change made by the Emperor dates from the Uth of Ardibihisht, 



