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Ilahabas, Agra, Ujjain, Dehli, Patna, Srinagar, Lahor, Multan, 
Ajmer, Atak, Badaon, Hisar, Gwaliar, on Kalanir, 
Lakhnau, Sarhind, Sironj, Saharanpar, Sambal. 
We have besides ge} issues of five mints of which Abul 
Fazl takes no cognisance, 
irat, Chitor, Khairpar, Dogion, and Narnol. 
There is no denying that the discrepancies, in this instance, 
are numerous and disconcerting. Out of a total of 42, we have 
nothing at all to show for nineteen. But does that prove that 
the list is ‘incomplete’ or ‘imperfect’ ? The boot is, if I may 
proving that Abil Fazl is ‘inaccurate,’ it implies that we have 
attained but indifferent success in unearthing the Akbari 
issues in copper. It is common knowledge that the serious 
search for Mughal dams and fults she only about forty 
years ago. A gid coins found in a small district (Kangra) 
enabled Mr. Oliver in 1886 to add nae new mints at a bound. 
Even in 1892, Mr. Lane Poole complained that the “ rarest of 
all Mughal coins were those of copper.” Ten years afterwards, 
Mr. Dames stated that no less ke twenty- nine new mints 0 
Akbar alone had been since (1892) brought to light (Num. 
Chron:, 1902, p. 277), about half of which were exclusively 
copper-ateliers. Several others have become known within the 
fi 
it is now impossible to decipher the name of the place of issue. 
A few words about the five other mea apparently 
ignored by Abul Fazl may not be out of plac 
And first, about Birat (#y). Abul oe has the name 
%;4;?Bihrah. We have no coins of Bihrah, but we have several 
of oe place of which he himself says elsewhere that it 
‘‘ had a copper mine so profitable that from a man weight of ore, 
they obtain 35 sers of metal”’ (Jarrett, If, 181: Text, 1 Se 
May it not be that 4 is a miswriting or misreading of Styx ! 
. mint-name must be wrong. If the latter has been rightly deciphered, the 
date will be found to require revision. 
i i isi the scarcity of Bengal copper coins. 
here is nothing Selgenernd in fst gal Sultdns ar ud 
he Siri mints in 
that 1 Prowines 
1 This name would appear to have puzzled not only the cop 
the Ain, but its translators. It is written 3y¢2 at Pp. 27 of the Bibliotheca 
Indica Text. At p.31 of Blochmann’s translation, it is al bite 
we are asked to read ‘Bahirah’ in the Table of Errata. e 
yists of 
