474 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [December, 1914. 



Both these changes will be approved by all who have read 

 Mr. W. Irvine's article in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal for 1899, and Mr. Whitehead's in the Numismatic 

 Supplement XVII. Mr. Whitehead, however, does well to men- 

 tion (page xxiii) that historians tell of coins having been 

 struck in Nekosiyar's name; though up to the present none 

 have been discovered. 



Another noteworthy and admirable feature of this cata- 

 logue is the frequent silent correction of errors that blemish 

 some of the previously published works. For instance, the 

 muhr and rupee of Shah 'Alam I, attributed in the British 

 Museum to the Sholapur mint, are here correctly assigned 

 to Mailapur; the Farrukhsiyar muhr, B.M.C. No. 893, wrong- 

 ly ascribed to Bareil, is here duly registered as from Pur- 

 bandar ; and the rupee attributed to the extraordinary 

 mint Mumbai-Surat is now accredited to Mahlsor. So also the- 

 Ilahl muhr assigned in the catalogue of the Bodleian Library 

 Collection to Tatta is in a brief footnote on page 20 traced, 

 and rightly, to Akbarnagar. Rodgers's tentative readings of 

 the mint-names Bandar Shahl and Darn 1-birt Kandi are 

 happily abandoned in favour of Srinagar and Daru-1-barakat 

 Xagor respectively. 



The map, supplied in this catalogue, of the mint-towns of 

 the Mughal Emperors indicates many of the ascertained results 

 of research during the past six years. Bandar Shahl has 

 been omitted altogether, the location of Malpur, and Pattan 

 Deo has been corrected, and several newly discovered mints 

 have been inserted. These include Islam Bandar, Toragal, Jiojl, 

 Ivarpa, Sikakul, Blkaner, Sa'dnagar, and Mailapur. Srinagar, 

 which may represent the capital of Kashmir, but may with 

 at least equal probability be the Srinagar of Garhwal, has 

 wisely been located on the map at both these places. 



It is by no means on the map alone that we find ample 

 evidence of a scholarship perfectly informed regarding the latest 

 additions to our knowledge of the Mughal coins. Amongst the 

 new couplets recorded are those on the Akbarabad rupee 

 of Shah 'Alam Bahadur (No, 2015), the Shahjahanabad rupee of 

 1 Alamgir II (No. 2797), and the Tatta rupee of Shah Jahan II 



(page Ixv). Farrukhsiyar 's remarkable title e>y ^*S* ^ b 



s< Third lord of the conjunction " is entered in a luminous note, 

 in Appendix C, on the symbol Sahib i qiran. More than one 



reference is made to the interesting formula cry 1 * j& u»r^ 



present on the reverse^ of two rupees that issued in the firs^ 

 regnal year of Shah 'Alam Bahadur, one from the Kambayat 

 and the other from the Ahmadabad mint. We also find men- 

 tion of the Akbarnagar rupee of Nur Jahan in the Lucknow 

 Museum, of Mr. C. J. Brown's unique rupee of Aurangzeb's 

 first regnal year from the Shahjahanabad mint, of the newly 



