236 Journ. of the Asiat. Soc. of Bengal. [July & Aug., 19165, 
national epithet—see the second volume of the new Lahore 
Museum Catalogue, p. 94. Double dams, corresponding in 
weight and size with the full tankas, are even rarer. I[ can 
refer numismatists to three specimens. A heavy dam of Islam 
Shah Siri was published in Mr. H. Nelson Wright’s paper 
‘The Coins of the Pathan Sultans of Dehli’, J. BR. AS, 
1 
There is a double dam of J ahangir of Bairata mint in the 
Cabinet of Mr. H. Nelson Wright. The third specimen is the 
Shah Jahan coin of Lucknow mint in the Indian Museum. 
further remark. Sirdhana is in the Meerut District, ant 
belonged at one time to the Begam Somru. Perhaps reader 
familiar with the locality and the period can throw further 
light on the matter. 
It may be stated as a general rule that the Mughal coppt 
currency was quite different in type, weight, and size from 
that in gold and silver. Yet we occasionally get pieces? 
copper struck from silver dies. These may have been intended 
Or it is possible that some were at one time lated. bi 
Burhanpir copper coin of Jahangir and the Tatta coppe a 
of Muhammad Shah are really copper rupees. Several of the 
copper issues of Shah ‘Alam II are of the silver type, 
from the Ahmadabad mint. I have since found that Dr. is 
Taylor possesses a beautiful little Anmadabad khair Hae! ug! 
hile the proofs of this paper have been passing : 
the Press, I am able to supply the following supplementat 
information. joo 
- 453. Column Ausa, Ai, line 16, insert Kot. (Collect 
of Mr. C. E. Kotwall, Bombay). -. genetil 
= he cepper coins of Elichpiir mint are en ost 
shapeless and dateless pieces of poor workmanship, and ee 
invariably display only a part of the complete legend. ec | 
Wolseley Haig recorded a note on a large find ta 
copper coins, and attributed them to the reigns of the em? ile 
denoted in the Table. I have scrutinised the plate Pains | 
his paper, and where dates are absent am not convineet hee 
y reigns. 
entered the coin of Shah Jahan on the sole authority | 
Leggett Sale Catalogue. 
