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The unit figure is, however, doubtful (possibly 9), and 

 there is almost certainly a line above the name, s-x) that the 

 ■coin is probably one of Nizam Sliah or Muhammad Shah. 



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Nizam Shah, 12th King. 



(a) Dr. Codrington gives only the date 866 for his type 

 No. 3, p. 269. To this can be added 867 (reversed on the 

 coin— 768). 



Muhammad Shah, 13th King, 



To the dates given by Dr, Codring^ton for the type B.M C, 

 No. 474, can be added 869, 884 ai»d 886 in the first size, 873 

 m the 2nd size, 807 (? 870) and 882 in the 3rd size. ^ 



'Specimens of all the varieties referi^ed to in this note 

 will be acquired for the Indian Museun 



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R. Burn. 



IV. ilUGHALS, 



50. Mughal Mint Towns. 



Toragal. 



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JnPartlof the Journal, Vol. LXXIII (,1904), Numismatic 

 Supplement, pp. 240-241, Mr. H. N, Wright identities a mint 

 town of Auran<^zeb, Kam Bakhsh, and Fairukhsiyar, as Nurkal 

 or Nurgal, " the chief town of a sarkar in the province of Bijapur." 

 He relies on entries upon pp. Ixxxix., xci., aud 154 of Mr. Jadnnath 

 Sarkar's " India of Aurai^gzeb.'* It is hardly necessary, perhaps, 

 to point out that Mr. Sarkar was working from Persian manu- 

 scripts only; and that the correct decipherment fi'om them of 

 personal and place names is exceedin*ily diflScult, and the result 

 in obscure cases is nearly always open to question. The manu- 

 scripts of the (Jhahar Qidshan^ the work which Mr. Sarkar was 

 using, are more than usually corrupt and indecipherable. Thus 

 no great reliance can be placed on the reading Nurgal until 

 ^eritied by independent evidence. So far this identification 

 ■on paper has not been followed by any attempt to locate the 

 town upon the map. This farther stage, I think, I can now 

 supply, coupled with an emendation of the reading by substituting 

 l^oragal for NurgaL 



Jn the Ma.nsir-ul'iimara, I, 288, line 11 (biography of Amanat 

 Sban No. 2), there is the following passage : " When in the end 



