1920. } Numismatic Supplement No. XXXIV. 179 
In reference to Lahor, Mr. Nelson Wright says that the 
Ilahi gold coins, “ which are scarce, seem to have been issued 
first in the fortieth year, both the full muhr and ~ quarter 
being known” (I.M.C. III. Ixi).!- The muhrs have not been 
published, and it is perhaps permissible to invite aention to 
the possibility of error = account of the confusion between the 
symbol for zero and‘ 5’. Mr. Nelson Wright has read the date 
on certain [ahi “ii of Dehli as 30 R. Mr. Whitehead 
is sure that it is 35 R (P.M.C. lxxv). Dr. Taylor also confesses 
to have erroneously read ‘40’ for ‘45’ on some Ahmadabad 
Tankas (N.S. IV. p. 103).? 
Abal Fazl tells us that gold coins were struck also at 
Ahmadabad and Kabul. We have not yet found any. 
But does it therefore follow that he was saying what was not ? 
no means. They may turn upany day. Kabul and Ahmad- 
abad were both towns of the first importance in Akbar’s 
dominions. Kabul was the capital of the northern quarter,* as 
Ahmadabad was of the western, Bangala of the eastern, and 
Mu‘askar-i-Iqbal, the place where the —— happened to be, 
constituted the centre of the empire. Ahmadabad was at 
this time perhaps the wealthiest city in the oe — 
Mughal system was, as I have shown elsewhere, a syste 
Free Coinage in all the metals. ‘‘ Any private ‘individual I had 
the right of bringing bullion to the mint and having it coin 
on defraying the actual cost of coinage at certain specified 
rates and paying a seigniorage of about five per cent ” (Num. 
e quarter-muhr was in the White-King collection ; Catalogue, 
Part III, No. 3497. 
2 Mr. Nelson Wright himself calls attention to remote example of 
this error in — note on Gobindpir. ‘‘In the Lahor Museum Cata logue, 
he writes, ‘‘are given four coins of the fortieth year, but ‘it seems prob- 
he that foety five: has been mistaken for forty.” I.M.C. III, Introd. 
xlvi 
ent e 3. 26-29 are gold ‘ tangas’ of Akbar of ag Central Asian 
f these weigh ag PRE erage each, and the fourth (a half- 
s. No. Z of the year 97/1 H. No. 29 was struck 
T ; : 
ti 
no 
i Biron that they are all Kabul issues of the 
at Emperor. Similar send pieces of Humaydn also are known (B.M.C. 
Nos. 8-10a ; I.MC. Nos. 13-14). Dr. White King eno Sree eee 
ogg attr OL the soy of pe es of Badakh 
abul was, morever, a grea gator peg : 
Babe ur writes: ‘Kabul is an excellent trading centre ; if merchants went 
to Khita or to Rim, they might amg no higher pr rofit. Down tc 
every year come 7, 8 or | horse up to it, from Hinddstan, come 
tated uses g 
y ravans of 10, 15 or 20000 = gee 
b an 
( vette! bdo on - ae r is not content with a profit of 30 or 40 
on 10. In Kabul, can be had the produets of Khurasan, Rim, ie and 
6 
Hindistan’s own mark A. 8. Beveridge, 
cali inl "x son: Lay den and Erskine’ s Translation, 137. 
