180 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
city in the empire. The case of Kabul is similar, and there 
would be nothing surprising in the future discovery of the gold 
coins:of both those mints. It may be also worth recalling that 
we have Ahmadabad muhrs of every one of the three imme- 
diate successors of Akbar, and Kabul gold pieces of Shah 
Jahan as well as Aurangzeb.! 
I rs s now see how the account stands with regard to 
silver. According to our author, that metal had the honour of 
being stamped with the Imperial name in 14 places: 
Mu‘askar-i-Iqbal, Bangala, Ahmadabad, Kabul, Ilahabas, 
Agra, Ujjain, Strat, Dehli, Patna, ‘Kashmir, Lahor, Multan and 
Tanda. 
Our list of the Middle Period contains the Spas names. 
Ujjain, Ahmadabad, Urdi Zafargarin, Agra, Ilahabad, 
bt i Birat, Patna, Tatta, Dehli, eatiogar, es Lahor, 
ult 
It will be seen that we can show silver coins of only 
twelve mints out of the fourteen, and possess no issues still, 
of Tanda and Kabul. At the same time we have Rupees of 
two mints, Tatta and Birat (or Birar) of which the writer does 
not appear to have known the existence 
I have shown elsewhere — ~ cong between Patna 
and Tatta is unhappily only to in Persian writing, 
and it is just possible that Abal Vaz feats wrote Petts here, 
and not Patn na.” 
in existence some half- Shahrukhts or ‘ Dirhams of the Central 
Asian type’ bearing Akbar’sname. Unfort tunately, they exhibit 
neither the name of the mint-town, nor the date. Mr. White- 
1 Mr. Whitehead informs me (February 1919) that there is an [lahi 
gold coin of Ahmadabad mint dated Mihr, 42 R, in the collection of Sir 
J = ageit 
r. Beveridge has pointed out an instance in the text of the 
A nin i i. At TH. 91,1. 17, the Bibliotheca Indica text has 
atna,’ but ‘* Blochm: [Ain, Trans. I. 421 the Lucknow edi- 
tion have Tatta instead of Patna.” Akbarnama, Trans. III. 129 note, 
The earliest Patna rupees are of the 42nd year One of them onl 
exhibits the month —Shahrivar (B.M.C. No. 209). The gg is nnabauly 
correct, but Mr. Burn was ‘‘ not quite satisfied ” with it, the name is 
written ¢ differently from the ordinary way.” He added that the had a coin 
Aurangzeb in which the same difference was noticeable, but could not 
re es a satisfactory reading. Mints of the Mughal Emperors. J.A.S.B. 
