44.2 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [ August, 1908. 
much to say that now for the first time the combined cabinets 
of the Indian Museum and of the Asiatic Society of Bengal have 
been made really available to the public. Comparatively few 
persons can visit Calcutta to explore the Coin Department of its 
Museum; but, thanks to this admirable Caen ie the Coins have 
of Indian Numism atics; for not erg has Mr, Wrigh & with an 
infinite patience and accuracy marshalled numerous detuile, but 
he has grouped and correlated them with singular skill. One 
scarcely knows which more to admire, the ample stock of minute 
— or its lucid eases as 
More n 2,500 coins pass under review, and some of the 
sesh aT coaktieed red here quite unpretentiously, furnish legends 
ch till now have baffled the ingenuity of numismatists. For 
nd e e Ak 
(No. 5 27). Reference is further made to the Mint-name Ujjain- 
pur, even though the Museum evidently does not possess a speci- 
men bearing the name in thi arged form. Tworupees of the 
XIV, and a Narwar rupee, No, 2249 on Plate XIX. An excel- 
lent specimen is shown of the Zinatu-l-bilad Ahmadabad rupee, 
No. 1816, and the Bandar-i-mubarak Strat rupee, No. 1539, is 
also figured Of the reign of Shah ‘Alam II alone coins of the 
following rare mints are represented in the Plates XX—XXII: 
ee ? Kharpir, Jammin, Gokulgarh, Baréli Qit‘a and 
wala. 
“But the most distinctive feature of the volume is the able 
seum, In the treatment of each mint a due proportion has been 
preserved ; and the gathered information supplied regarding the 
coins struck at the more important Imperial Mints is of especial 
value. Every page of this Introduction evidences wide numis- 
mention of the “ considerable impetus ” that has in recent years 
been imparted to the study of the coins of the Mughals, and the 
chief sources of this newly-awakened interest he also indicates. 
But most assuredly no more inspiring work has been produced, 
‘and none more practically helpful, than pe this volume itself. 
It certainly should avail to enthuse many a student in the field 
of Oriental research, and bring him under the spell of those 
sees coins that once passed sparid from hand to hand but are 
-8o difficult of acquisitio 
vor ik under the impulse of this Catalogue fresh numismatic 
