1920.] . Numismatic Supplement No. XXXIV. 175 
the catalogue of copper-mints g I / 
Eight new names are then added, seven of which are again 
marshalled on the same principle and then, lastly another 
name is inserted out of the proper order as if to make up for 
some inadvertent omission. It may be also noticed that six 
sof these eight names begin with a Sin. It would seem as if 
they had been all missed or accidentally left out in the first 
addition. It will be observed that the first twenty names in the 
cad in pose ciety aE Th 1 r 
ait. 
Well then, if we are to understand by j97*' (at the present 
time), the 42nd year Ilahi, it follows that the list is not an 
was never intended to be anything like the exhaustive enumera- 
tion of the Akbari mints, which it has been supposed by many 
of our authorities to be. The mints of an Antecedent or Earlier 
Period are expressly excluded, and we have no right whatever 
to expect any recognition of them. It is also self-evident that 
all those mints which could not, for historical reasons, have 
he himself had borne no small part in engineering, and to 
which he frequently refers with pride an exultation in his 
pages. He was taking into account only those mints—which 
were at work when he wrote, and deliberately excluding all 
those which had been closed since the Reorganization of the 
Coinage and the Imperial Mints about the 30th year. ; 
Briefly, my point is that all the criticisms based on the 
iti ing in his pages a complete 
list of Akbar’s mints are radically erroneous and unfair to the 
writer. The first thing we have to do before he is put upon 
his trial is to eliminate all the mints which, though open dur- 
ing the Antecedent or Early Period. can not be shown to have 
been at work during the (Middle) Period of which he was 
writing. Next, we must also draw a line at the 42nd year 
and shut out all those which were demonstrably established for 
the first time after that date. 
now submit a chronological synopsis of Akbari Mints 
which has been prepared mainly with a view to making these 
: at which coins in 
