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1923.] Numismatic Supplement No. XXXVIJTI. N. 73 
determination of the afelier which has been variously located 
at Sitpur, Sitapur, Peshawar and even Sinor. It is now nearly 
six years since I suggested to the late Dr. Taylor that these 
puzzling issues were the products of the Sarat mint; and I am 
still inclined to believe that this decipherment (which he ex- 
pressed his readiness at the time to accept) has more to be said 
for it than any other that has been suggested, although if may 
not be incontrovertible or even succeptible of proof. 
All the coins of the alleged mint of ‘Sitpir, in our Mu- 
seums are round, the vears being 47, 48 and 49 R. and the 
month Mihr. I do not think that the curious coincidence of 
everyone of them having been uttered in one and the same 
1lahi month—Mihr -- has received the attention that it deserves. 
The late Mr. Framji Thanawala had several round Rupees of 
“Sitptr’’, of two other types, illustrations of four of which 
are through the kindness of Mr. Vicaji D. Taraporewala repro- 
duced in this supplement. I may observe that on the undoubt- 
ed issues of the Sarat mint of 38 R, the terminal letter of the 
place-name is disjoined or separated from the j,~ and written 
above it. My submission is that the symbol, which is inscribed 
just below the letters that have been taken to stand for Sitpur 
is not the w of ~y~ (as has been supposed), but the = of ©). 
The only difference between the square rupees of 38 R. and the 
round rupees of 47-49 R. is that, in the former this final = 
is written above, in the latter below the y~. The foundation 
of the error lies in the supposition that this symbol is the ~ of 
+ye. The untenable character of this assumption is shown by 
two of the coins illustrated. Plate III, 2,4. In them the — 
can be distinctly seen in the lowest part of the field, in the 
immediate proximity of the »2. This — is visible on only two 
Out of these four rupees—on the two of which the larger 
diameter permits its coming off on the flan. 
t may be also noticed that the decoration of these 
Tupees is unequal. The omission of the superimposed squares 
and other ornamental features has made it possible for the en- 
gtaver to add some letters and it has been supposed that the 
Word ~»—the denominational epithet especially devised by 
Akbar for the half rupee — was stamped by error on these whole 
rupees for two years (47 and 48 R.) by the Mintmaster. 
One error always begets another. If we take it for granted 
that the symbol below jy is the ~ of ye it is impossible to 
read the other J except as the terminal letter of =. But 
there is no necessity whatever of postulating any such thing. 
The true reading of the coins on which the additional 
letters }° are inscribed is Sypwe yo yee I venture to say that 
