182 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
It may be perhaps necessary to add that I myself see no 
difficulty in identifying Abil Fazl’s Kashmir with our Sri- 
nagar, and beg permission to refer for the reasons to N. 8. 
XXVIII, art. 177. 
I also venture to think that the existence of a Mughal 
mint at Surat during the Middle period is no longer open to 
doubt. Even supposing P.M.C. No. 355 to be a forgery (which 
I submit it is not), Mr. Panna Lal’s undoubtedly genuine Rupee 
of the 38th year (Num. Sup. X XVI, art. 161) settles the matter, 
and there are besides the so-called ‘Coins of Gujarat fabric.’ 
Mr. Master’s admirable paper on the subject is convincing so 
far as it goes, but it must not be supposed to go any further. 
He has proved conclusively that the Koris of Jamnagar were 
called Mahmidis in the 17th century, but it does not therefore 
follow that the same name was not borne simultaneously by 
other coins of very different types as to legends and lettering, 
but resembling them in weight and size. How many diverse 
kinds of silver money were all called, for similar reasons, 
Rupees even within the last hundred years? Besides, it is 
not easy to conceive how those Mahmidis which are said, b 
of the period, could have been no other than the issues of the 
remote and by no means wealthy or powerful chief referred to. 
The ‘ Coins of Gujarat fabric’ are obviously half-rupees modell- 
ed on the local currency of the Gujarat Sultans, and I am not 
aware of any grounds for positively asserting that they have 
no connection with the Mughal mint of Surat. 
We now come to copper, and this part of Abil Fazl’s list 
contains no less than 42 names in the aggregate, viz. 
“ Mu‘askar-i-Iqbal, Bangala, Ahmadabad, Kabul, Ilahabas, 
a Ujjain, Strat, Dehli, Patna, Kashmir, Lahor, Multan, 
n a ar 
? 
Qanauj, Rantanbhir 
e can put together specimens of not more than twenty- 
three or twenty-four of them ; 
Urdi Zafarqarin, Akbarnagar(?)!, Ahmadabad, Kabul, 
know in what month of that year the list f re > 
i th d. 
We might also do well to bear in mind that 1 ee 
i :; , Birat, Bandar, 
Lahri rg el not have to be brought inte rap fot ae 
c arnagar fuliis was in the White King Collection Catalogue, 
Part UI, No 3670). The date 994 A. H. ag sore Bs rae el 
: ‘ay 1 was founded several years afterwards (1002-3 A. H There 
mus an error somewhere. If the date has been correctly read, the 
