12 NUMISMATIC SUPPLEMENT No. XXXIV, 
Note,— The soe of the articles below is continued 
of the ‘'Journal and Proceedings ’’ 
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210. Aso. Fazw’s INVENTORY OF AKBAR’sS MINTs. 
There is not probably, in the entire range of the histori- 
cai literature relating to the Indian Mughals, a passage which 
has been more frequently quoted or referred to by the students 
of their coins than the list of Akbari mints in the Ain. 
The statement itself is neither lengthy nor complicated, nor 
‘inaccurate,’ or ‘incomplete.’ Others have expressed 8 
disappointment at the omission of this or that mint, of whic 
coins of any year have been found, or their ton 
on account of the inclusion of towns of which no issues are 
nown.” 
Asa writer, Abil Fazl has his faults. His pompous plati- 
tudes, perpetual and, to us, fulsome adulation of his master 
and his habit of agp roat te simple matters in a cloud of difficult 
or —— words often excite our dislike and sometimes our 
disgust. But it has not been denied even by the most un- 
friendly critics, that he had exceptionally authentic and exact 
sources of information. There was not an important document 
or official hey which was not open to his we onc or 
ity _ dry facts and Goan” siitetally knew no caxtelz 
Nor was he a mere » glutton or indiscriminate devourer of facts. 
es page of the — bears witness to his capacity of digesting 
and assimilating enormous masses of them, and his powers ot 
analysis and the lucid presentation of his materials have ex- 
1 Prinsep (Useful Tables, ed. 1834, p. 18), Thomas (Chroni icles, on 
1871, pp. 427-8) and Lane Poole (British Museum a Introd., 
liii) have all transcribed the list with or without commen 
2 Mr. Oliver complains bas ‘¢ Akbarabad, Mirath, Nanol. Fathpir, 
Sherpar, Gobindpir, Bairatah, Deogir, Doganw and (? Sirsa ginny 
are Z 
(J.A.S.B., 1886, p. 4.) See also I.M.C. III. Introd. xxxv (Bhakkar), 
xlvii. (Gobindpar); P.M.C. Introd. lviii. (Bhakkar); Num. Sup. XI. 
322 (Hisar Rupoos of f 966 A.H.); Ibid. 324 (Gadraula Rupee of 967 A.H.) 
