224 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
procured from Jaora. In Webb’s Currencies of Rajputana, 
p. 23, however, coins of this kind are ascribed to the Pratap- 
garh State. No. 43 isa rupee, Nos. 40a and 40 dare eight annas, 
o. 41 is a four-anna, No. 44 is a two- -anna, and Nos. 42 a and 
42 b are paisas. The dates of the coins are inconsistent 
The rupee (No. 43) has iy H. and 29 julis of Shah ‘Alam ; 
while the julis should be 26..... The mint on the reverse of 
has also been noticed on other specimens. The only Deora 
I know of is a small town on, the Son river, in Baghelkhand. 
in the Reva state, a few miles beyond t the borders of the 
British district of Mirzapir. a ey cannot be read 
% lea Javarah or Jaora.. On No. 40 a there are distinct traces, 
reading 5: evag, which iroud: atl Devagarh or Deogar 
This is a small town in Gwaliyar, and is probably the name 
intended on all these coins.” (Loe. cit., pp. 268-9.) 
e coins are figured and it is clear outa the Plate 
(No. XXXT1) that the second suggestion gives the correct 
reading of the name which is not x29 but 4S... But Dr. 
Hoernle was not equally happy in his attempt to determine 
bp locality. Exactly similar coins are described and illustra- 
, a8 he himself admits, in Webb’s Currencies of the Hindu 
ates of Rajputana, and are there ascribed to Pratapgarh (or 
Partabgarh). It is common knowledge that these Partabgarh 
issues had at one time extensive circulation in those parts. 
under the name of Salimshahi rupees. An examination of the 
Salimshahi rupee ‘ current in Malwa and coined by the Raja of 
Pertabgurh ’ of which there is a drawing on Pl. II in Prinsep’s 
Useful Tables, leaves no room for doubt as to its identity with 
. Hoernle’s No. 43 and Webb’s No.9, Pl. III, the only 
difference being that the mint-name is partially visible on 
Dr. Hoernle’s coin, but entirely absent from the other 
But if these coins are specimens of the Salimehaht issues 
of Partabgarh, why do they happen to exhibit the mint-name 
Deogarh ? The answer is that Deolia or Deogarh is the name 
of the old capital of the State of Fares bgar 
The compiler of the article on‘ Parta bgarh’ in the 
Imperial Gazetteer writes: ‘The founder of the State was 
one Rika, a descendant of Rana Mokal of Mewar, who left his 
estates of Sadri and Dariawad in 1553, proceeded south, and 
subdued the aboriginal tribes. In 1561, he founded the town 
oi Deolia or Deogarh, naming it after a female chieftain named 
Devi i, and subsequently he overpowered as Rajputs 
mee further to the south and east.. Hari Singh’s son, 
Pratap Singh, who succeeded in 1674 ‘founded the town of 
Partabgarh in 1698, and from it the State takes its name, 
