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to distinguish merely by their make the Zafarabad rupees from 
those of either the southern mint of Daulatabad or the northern 
mint of Lahor. 
If then the Zafarabad coins along with those of Atak do 
not constitute a continuous series, and if the shape of the letters 
proves nothing as to the place of origin, there remains no evi- 
dence, so far as I am aware, to warrant the identification of the 
Zafarabad mint with that of Atak. 
Yet another town bore the name of Zafarabad—Bidar in 
the Dakhin. That this place may have been the mint-town 
Mr. Irvine suggested ‘<‘ long ago,’’ and Mr. Nelson Wright in his 
recently published Catalogue of the Coins in the Indian Museum 
declares in favour of this as the ‘‘ more probable ’’ location of 
the mint. Founded by Ahmad Shah I, the ninth king of the 
Bahmani dynasty, Bidar supplanted Kulbarga as the seat of the 
sovernment, and became about 1430 A.D. the capital of the 
kingdom. It is the Muhammadabad of the Bahmani coins, and 
within its citadel are still to be seen the ruins of a mint that was 
dates on the Zafarabad rupees constitutes a strong argument 
for identifying the mint-town with Zafarabad Bidar. b 
ow to account for the renewed activity of this mint m the 
fifth and sixth years of the reign of ‘Alamgir II is a ee 
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