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advantageously located. The recently founded Iahabad had 
supplante ora (Karra ?). Fathpur had lost its short-lived 
importance since the Emperor had ceased to reside there, and 
Merta (?) was deprived of its licence, perhaps because Raj- 
putana possessed, even without it, more than its fair share of 
copper mints. 
There is another point also which it is necessary to bear 
in mind. Copper had been coined so profusely within the 
preceding fifty years by the Siris, and likewise by Akbar, that 
in some places no great necessity of striking Dams in any 
quantity was likely to be felt. The privilege of issuing them 
was, nevertheless, not withdrawn from the more important 
towns which had possessed it under the old regime They 
were to exercise the right and avail themselves of the permis- 
sion if there was need; they would remain inactive, if 
the local supply was not insufficient for the demand. This 
probably accounts for the fact of our having not yet discovered 
metals was, in fact, too small, that of those licensed to coin 
7 silver mints, and only 9 copper mints. The pee ppt 
numbers for the reign of Shah Jahan are 23, 35 and 15 ( 7 ; 
Taylor, Num. Sup. XXI. 181-2). These figures speak tor 
themselves. 
The net result of this enquiry seems to me to be that 
Abial-Fazl’s inventory for the part or period of Akbar's reign 
