380 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [October, 1909. 
far to seek. The explanation lies simply in the fact that the 
number has no reference to any regnal year, but is the number 
of the year of issue reckoned from the commencement of the 
Hahi era. The Ain-i-Akbari states, ‘‘ The era of the Hijrah was 
now abolished, and a new era was introduced, of which the 
first year was the year of the emperor’s accession’’ (Bloch- 
mann, I, 195). Thus the 50 on the Salimi coins means essen- 
tially [Ilahi] 50. It might just as easily have been written 
[Hijri] 1014; but in this instance Salim preferred, it would 
seem, to date his coin in the era that his father had desired to 
substitute for the Hijri. That the Ilahi era should close with 
the close of Akbar’s life was never contemplated. 
Mr. Beveridge draws attention to the fact that Salim’s re- 
bellion was not confined to Allahabad, but extended to Etawa, 
and Jaunpur, and Bihar. Now if it was during this rebellion 
that the Salimi coins were struck, we should naturally expect 
they would have been issued from these cities. But the break- 
ing out of a revolt at Allahabad and Jaunpir can scarcely be 
regarded as the true cause of the minting of coins at a city so 
far removed from the seat of disaffection as Ahmadabad. And 
howis one to account for the Salimi half rupee struck at Kabul! 
(Ind. Mus. Catal. vol. iii, No. 686.) Did the rebellion also ex- 
tend even to that city in the far north? If Allahabad, Jaun- 
pur, Bihar, Etawa, Ahmadabad, and Kabul were really all of 
them contributory to Salim’s conspiracy, we should, I venture 
to affirm, have heard far more of it than we do from contem- 
porary historians. 
partisans of Salim in early avowal of their loyalty. met ea 
Beveridge lays much stress on the improbability © 
month. Akbar died at Agra on the 10th of Aban, thus twenty 
days before the close of the month. The journey from F 
pur Sikri, 23 miles west of Agra, to Ahmadabad, say 400 kos, 
was accomplished by Akbar in nine days and nights—a wonder 
