24, NUMISMATIC SUPPLEMENT No. XXXII, 
Note.—The numeration of the articles below is continued 
from p. 378 of the ‘‘Journal and Proceedings” 
for 1918. 
198. Som RARE MuGuHat Corns. 
A recent find of Mughal silver coins in the Nadia District 
presents some features of unusual interest. Of the 42 coins 
recovered 23 were rupees, and these without exception are of 
well-known types. The remainder consisted of small change, 
principally in the form of nisars, and it is difficult to find a 
parallel to such a discovery of thirteen of these varieties, all of 
different dates and representing five different mints. Five be- 
long to the reign of Shahjahin and the rest are issues of 
Aurangzeb, The most remarkable are the small issues of 
Shahjahan from the Akbarnagar mint and of Aurangzeb from 
Jahangirnagar [Dacca]. The latter is a minute piece of exactly 
1 grains weight. The uniformity of weight in these small 
coins is remarkable, and except in the case of the Lahore 
msar of Shahjahin, the scale runs almost exactly from 11 to 
22, 44 and 88 grains. 
Apart from the nisars, the collection of which may well 
have been the work of some petty official attached to the im- 
perial court, the Indian Museum gains three small silver pieces 
issued in the reign of Aurangzeb from the Akbarnagar mint. 
€ two-anna piece has been published already in the British 
Museum Catalogue, but I have not been able to discover a 
parallel to the quarter-rupee of the same type. On all three 
the legend is in the well-known couplet form found on the 
Akbarnagar rupees. 
: The following coins appear to merit detailed descrip- 
lon :— 
(1) Shahjahan. 
Mint.— Akbarabad. 
Date.— 1046-10. 
Weight.—43-7 grains. 
Obverse. Reverse. 
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