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1923] Numismatic Supplement No. XX XVII. N. 75 
resembles them. Or, it is the bungled production of some 
prentice-workman who was ignorant of Persian or had an 
imperfect mastery of his g:aver. In other words, either this 
coin was uttered by the same mint as the 18 others or it was not. 
If if was, it is a blunder. If it was not, it can have no 
bearing on the point at issue. In either case, ie., whether it 
is or it is not the ouly surviving relic or proof of an error, 
which was vorrected in the subsequent issues of 48 and 49, the 
result is immaterial. 
S. H. Hopiva.a. 
242. THe Mint Gopinprtre. 
The identification of Gobindpur with a place, so called, in 
the subdivision of the same name in Manbhim District, Chatia 
Nagpur, Bengal, (23° 50’ N., 82° 32’ E.) seems to bea conjecture 
founded merely on phonetic resemblance. The place is a mere 
village which had a population of only 1,293 souls at the census 
of 1901, and it appears to have been thought worthy of 
mention in the ‘Imperial Gazetteer,’ only on account of the 
recent exploitation of the mineral resources in its neighbourhood. 
“The Jherriah coal-field lies within the subdivision [of 
Gobindpir] and the great growth of the population during the 
last decade is due to the rapid development of the mining 
industry,”” (Imp. Gaz., XII, 180-1. 
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Office Guide. There is a Gobindpir in Dacca, somewhere 
near Nababganj, another in Gaya, a third in Sylhet, a fourth 
