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 Mint. It struck the eye on looking through Dr. Taylor's 

 cabinet that some coins of the later Mughals bore the ankush 

 and others not, and it was a natural step forward to enquire 

 whether the presence and absence of the ankush corresponded 

 with any definite period of occupation by different powers. A 

 short examination showed that the British coins did not bear 

 the ankush . and this fact together with the knowledge that one 

 or two coins existed bearing thelettersnT (presumably for Gaik- 

 war) lay a wide field open to further inquiry. But the scar- 

 city of material presented difficulties and Dr. Taylor's cabinet 

 of ^Mughal coins, extremely helpful as it was, could not be 

 expected to contain coins which were obviously not Mughal. 

 I therefore made a special search among the so-called sikkais 

 of Ahmadabid, which are to be found in large numbers in the 

 silver dealers' shops. These sikkais I found to be struck with 

 extraordinary uniformity, so as to exclude the_date both of the 

 Hijrf years and of the Mughal Emperor's « « julus." The result 

 was that onlv about one coin in a hundred yielded the requi- 

 site data, and it will be understood that a perfectly complete 



series was hard to obtain. 



A list of the known coins of the Ahmadabad Mint of and 

 after 1165 ah. is to be found in the Appendix, which to a 

 large extent explains itself. Its indebtedness for the years 

 between 1165 and 1200 a.h. to Dr. Taylor's cabinet will be 

 seen. The subsequent coins are mainly from my own cabinet. 



The principal mint marks in this series appears to be in 

 the loop of the sin of julus on the reverse, and unless it is 

 stated to the contrary, all mint marks will be understood to 

 occupy this position. The last Mughal marks are those of 

 Ahmad Shah (v. app. No. 1) and of 'AlaniL'ir IT (v app. Nos 5 

 and 6). The former resembles a sprig of a tree and is chiefly 

 noticeable, because it appears to be reproduced on the copper 

 coins Nos. 47 a and 49 a and b of the Appendix. This mark 

 may. however, represent a glorified trisul, and in any case it 

 stands upright and not slantwise like the "sprig." A com- 

 parison mav be made with Wright I.M.C. Vol. Ill, Mint mark 

 No. 94. 



The mark on coins Nos. 5 and 6 in the Appendix is not 

 especially distinctive. It bears a close resemblance to that on 

 British-minted coins, Appendix No. 51, though the two marks 

 differ in detail. 



The next distinctive mark is the ankush of which our 

 earliest specimen is Appendix No. 2. It definitely replaces the 

 sprig in the sin of julus. Mention has been made of the 

 evidence, which leads us to believe that the ankush is purely 

 a Marat ha sign. It seems conclusive enough. Upon the 

 origin of the sign light is thrown by the Hon'ble Mr. Justice 

 Ranade in his article on currencies and mints under Maratna 

 rule in J.B.B.R.A.S., Vol. XX, No. LV. He remarks on page 



