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discovered Labor rupee of Muhammad Shah, on which that 

 monarch calls himself Muhammad Shah Bahadur, of Mr. 

 Framji J. Thanawala's rupee, possibly from the Sitpur mint, 

 bearing the denominational epithet v;*> of Mr. Nelson Wright's 



Multan rupee of Shah ' Alain I with its [#§& ^^ legend, and of 



the unique four tanki piece, found by Mr. A. Master in 

 Ahmadabad, on which the word ^ is spelt j 1 ^. The state- 

 ment on page lxxx regarding the mint-town bearing the epithet 

 Zainu-1-bilad indicates precisely the view that at present 

 holds the field. From the existing evidence we can only say 

 that the coins from this mint may have been, we are not just 

 >ure that they were, struck at Ahmadabad. It is interesting 

 to note that whereas Mr. Nelson Wright, when compiling his 

 Indian Museum Catalogue six years ago, referred, in a mere 

 parenthesis, to the Urdu Zafar Qarln muhr of 984 as "possibly 

 still unique ", Mr. Whitehead is now able to state, also paren- 

 thetically, that this round gold muhr is " one of two known 

 specimens." Again on page lx we read, <c The name on 

 these latter coins looks more like Bairat (than Bairata), or, 

 as suggested by Mr. H. Nelson Wright, Berar." Were Mr. 



Whitehead writing this sentence to-day he would not fail to 



add that at the annual meeting of the Numismatic Society of 

 India held last January (1914), it was unanimously agreed 

 that so far as relates to Akbar's rupees from this mint the 

 reading;^ Barar, be adopted. 



In Appendix B is given a table that should prove useful 

 of the Ilahl synchronisms of the Hijri New Year's Day from 964 

 to 1070. Page 441 exhibits 103 " Marks on Mughal Coins." 

 This interesting plate would gain immensely in value if a list 

 were drawn up indicating for each mark the several coins on 

 which that special work is found. 



The Asafabad Barell rupee? merit a more detailed state- 

 ment than the short reference made to them on page lv. 

 In a letter, received now five years ago, from Colonel W. 

 Vost, I. M.S., he mentions having seen Barell Qit'a rupees of 

 A.H. Iv03, 1205, and 1207, bearing 29 as the regnal year, 



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of A.H. 1208, and 1209, „ 31 

 of A.H. 1209, and 1211, „ 35 „ 



of A.H. 1211, „ 36 „ 



and of A.H. 1211, 1212, 1313, 1214, 1215, 1216, bearing 37 as 

 the regnal year. To this list Mr. Whitehead's Catalogue now 

 adds Barell Qit'a rupee of A.H. 1218 and R. Y. 37. The Asafa- 

 bad Barell rupees, on the other hand, seem to be confined 

 to the three Hijri years 12C9, 1210, and 1211, with which 

 is invariably associated the one regnal year 35, written either 

 as ra or as r*. It is thus probable that the 'Asafabad 

 issue appeared only in the interval between A.H. 1209 and 



