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69. Op Corns IN THE BAHAWALPCR StTaTE TOsHAKHANA. 
In December, 1908, I was deputed to examine the old 
coins in the Bahawalpur State Toshakhana. ; 
Till recent years the State Treasure was kept intact in the 
desert Fort of Derawar, but has been gradually dispersed after 
its removal to the present capital of the State. 
numbers there are now four lakhs of silver coins, and half a 
lakh of gold. Fortunately I found that the coins had been 
roughly classified, and it was unnecessary to open most of the 
bags as they only contained coins of Bahawalpir State, and 
go'd and silver issues of the Durrani Kings Mahmid and Shah 
Shuja, minted at Bahawalpir. Next in number came miscel- 
laneous coins of the Durrani Kings. In comparison with these 
the Mughal coins formed only a residue of the whole, but from 
a@ numismatic point of view were of great importance, because 
there were at least six thousand Mughal gold mohurs. The 
Mughal rupees were scattered at random throughout the bags of 
silver and often only some half dozen would turn up out of a 
bag of a thousand, but tHe results I think have justified the 
labour expended. The time at my disposal, less than three 
weeks, was altogether inadequate for a thorough examination of 
so great a number of coins, and many things worthy of preser- 
vation must have escaped my notice. For instance it would 
have been interesting to have compiled lists of dates, but I was 
unable to do this. Any dates mentioned are taken from coins 
selected at random. 
confined my chief attention to a search for new or rare 
Mughal coins, and for fine specimens of known issues. 
Gotp Corns. 
Mushal Of the whole mass of gold coins, the oldest 
a was a solitary mohur of Sher Shah Sari. 
I found a few gold coins of Akbar, of Shah Jahan, and of Shah 
‘Alam II, but all the remaining Mughal issues were of the 
ir I e commonest 
mohur mint was Akbarabad. There must have been at least 
did not predominate. ; 
In Mr. Burn’s, ‘The Mints of the Mughal Emperors’, - 
published in Part I of Volume LXXIII of the Journal, Asiatic 
