1920.] Numismatic Supplement No. XXXIV. 189 
scrutinised by Mr. H. Nelson Wright, Mr. R. B. Whitehead and 
Mr. W. E. M. Campbell. To all of them I have to make ac- 
kowledgments for bringing to my notice some points which 
d in need of reconsideration, and furnishing the dates of 
several unpublished coins in their own collections and the Lakh- 
Museum. 
are my own and you 
etror. Both are clearly 40 ( t+) and could not be rea 
constituting “for the time being, the centre of the Empire 
(p. 15 supra). It is clear that when Akbar’s headquarters 
were in Lahor Fort, two different mints would be simultane- 
ously at work within the limits of the city, the town’s own 
mint and the Camp-mint attached to the personal establish- 
ment of the Emperor. It is not unlikely that some confusion 
Tt should be remembered 
of the Empire during the fourth decade of the reign and about 
three years of the fifth, and Abul Fazl repeatedly speaks of 
it as the sls! )ts (Akb. Nam. Text. III. 733 1, 24), and #f es 
(Ibid., III. 747, 1, 15 and Ain, Text, I. 76, 1. 10, Trans. I. 68). 
It is not at all unlikely that the actual name of the ‘place of 
striking’ may have been sometimes inscribed by the mint- 
masters and engravers on the issues of the Emperor's private 
mint, instead of the indefinite and nondescript designation, 
nm 
humbler issues in copper. Akbar was perpetually innovating 
in small things, and it is a question if we may not see in bus 
departure the beginning of the end— 
abolition of this migratory atelier. The a 
