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employed in deciphering the legends. Especial interest at- 

 taches to the grouping together of the coins that issued from a 

 given mint during entirely different dynasties. For example, 

 we have the Jaunpur coins of the Sultans of Dehll side by side 

 with Akbar's Mughal pieces, or, again, the Mughal coins of 

 Awadh side by side with the Native State issues. 



The well-known bilingual and trilingual paisa of the East 

 India Company are exhibited on pages 71 and 99, and Mr. 

 Valentine, after correctly giving the Persian and Bengali read- 

 ings, adds that the same legend appears also "in debased 

 Nagrl." We have often thought that this last character is 

 just a crude form of Gujarat!, to which certainly the letters on 

 the coins bear a remarkable resemblance. Thus the different 

 characters would suggest that these coins were legal currency 

 over the whole of India from Bengal in the East to Gujarat in 

 the West, 



We tender hearty congratulations to Mr. Valentine on the 

 admirable work he has accomplished in this Part I, and shall 

 await his later volumes with high expectations. 



Geo. P. Taylor. 



Londonderry, 



2nd September, 1914. 



144. A Copper Coin from the Nahrwala Shahr Pattan 



Mint. 



Last February (1914) I had the good fortune to find in the 

 Ahmadabad bazar a copper fulus of Akbar from the mint 

 Nahrwala Shahr Pattan. Coins of the Pattan mint are known 

 in all three metals, but they are extremely rare and those 

 hitherto published have all been of the year 984 h. On the 

 rupee the mint name appears as Nahrwala (Note or " Anhir- 

 wala " ; vide the coin in the Lucknow Museum Cabinet.— Edr.) 

 Pattan, and in the fulus as Shahr Pattan. Mr. Whitehead, 

 emending the reading that had been suggested of the legend on 

 the gold muhr, Plate III, No 61, in the British Museum Cata- 

 logue of Mughal Coins, has shown that this muhr also exhibits 

 the mint name as Shahr Pattan. The copper coin which I 

 have now the pleasure to submit bears the date 98o h. , and 

 gives the Pattan associated with both the epithets Shahr and 

 Nahrwala. It thus records in full the triple name Nahrwala 

 Shahr Pattan. 



The Obverse reads as follows : 





