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ful feat for royalty, but not so wonderful for relays of trained 
Ww be 
post-haste to the province held in fief by the heir to the throne. 
If Akbar, accompanied by at least some small retinue, could 
travel the distance in nine days, the dak-runners would in a 
matter of urgency do the journey not less quickly. But even 
if a fortnight be allowed, the news would have reached Ahma- 
dabad by the 24th of Aban, or about a week before the end of 
the month, and of that week only a day or so would be re- 
quired for the engraving of the dies. Hence time-consider- 
ations do not in any way bar the supposition that the Aban 
50 Salimi rupees were struck after Akbar’s 
At the close of his article Mr. Beveridge expresses the 
opinion that the issue of the later Salimi coins ‘‘ must have been 
merely a continuation—with or without Jahangir’s know- 
but after the death of Akbar. 
G. P. Taylor. 
AHMADABAD: 
June 1909. 
73. Mucuat Mryt Towns. 
NUSRATABAD. 
_ On p. xxi of his Introduction to ‘‘ Catalogue of the Coins 
in the Indian Museum, Calcutta,’’ vol. iii_ (1908), Mr. A. 
Nelson Wright suggests the identification of Nusratabad with 
the present town of Dharwar. I think there is conclusive 
evidence that it is Sakhhar (or Sagar), now in the Nizam's 
ominions, ninety-five miles S.-E. of Sholapur, lat. 
long. 76° 51’, see plate 34 in Constable’s ‘‘ Hand Atlas.’’ On the 
2nd Safar 1099 H. (Dec. 7, 1687) this place was taken by the 
wee . Irvine that the extract from the M‘asir-1- 
Alamgiri is strong evidence of the locality of the mint ‘* Nusratabad 
but before calling it conclusive I think we must wait for definite informa- 
tion that coins were struck ‘‘in the country of Sakkar ’’ in the name of 
Aurangzeb.—H. N. W. st 
