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which does not appear at all on most specimens, and where it 
happens to be partially visible (as on the Aurangzeb rupee 
figured in Num. Sup. IV, Pl. II, 10), it would seem to be an 
Briefly, two at least out of the six 
letters are altogether doubtful and impossible to fix. 
the second place, the name of the small Kathiawad 
town of Porbandar is always spelt, on the very few occasions 
on which it is at all alluded to by the Persian historians, as 
yY 199 with the‘ wav,’ which is never dropped. Porbandar is 
incidentally mentioned once in the Akbarnama of Abil Fazl 
(Bibl. Ind. Text, III, 638, 1. 10) and once also in the chapter 
of the Ain-i-Akbari which is devoted to a description of the 
Suba of Gujarat. (Bibl. Ind. Text, I, 500.) The only other 
Persian work in which the name occurs, to m} 
the history of Gujarat called the Mirat-i-Ahmadi, and the spell- 
ing found in all these passages is not yo 5g but) yg. Again, 
the second volume of the Mirat contains a valuable statistical 
account or District Gazetteer, in which the writer expressly 
mentions all those mints of the Province that are known to us, 
viz. Ahmadabad, Sirat, Cambay and Junagadh. There is not 
a word, however, in the section on Porbandar about a wy sie 
or mint having ever existed in that town, though several details 
are given as to the establishments in each of the other mints, 
