130 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (March, 1912. 
Ornamented Umbrella above ~ on obverse and sun-face in 
both gw ’s of reverse. T (almost obliterated) above the \e. 
The passage in the Memoirs of George Thomas, which 
states that he established a mint and coined his own rupees, 
which he made current in his army and country, is well known 
but no satisfactory attribution of any coin to him has as yet 
been given. e above coin, which is now in the British 
Museum, is the piece illustrated in Compton’s Military Adven- 
turers of Hindustan, p. 143, but the description there is, as 
Mr. Burn has pointed out, erroneous (J.A.S.B. 1904, p. 8 
date of issue of this coin to 5th June to 5th October 1799, 
which is soon after Thomas had firmly established himself in 
Hansi. The epithet Sahibabad was probably chosen b 
Thomas in allusion to his favourite title of « Sahib Bahadur.”’ 
Keene in his Hindustan under Free Lances, p. 88, says that he 
has seen a rupee of Thomas’s bearing the title of the Emperor 
Shah ‘Alam in Persian, with a capital T in English character. 
The T on this specimen is almost obliterated, but possibly this 
note may produce a better preserved specimen. The onl 
other coins with Shah ‘Alam’s legends on which the sun-face 
occur are of the Indore mint. 
J. ALLAN, 
British Museum. 
Note.—I figure. my own specimen of this rare coin as it 
throws some doubt on the reading T over le on the reverse and 
fills up gaps in the obverse legend, which is probably the same 
as that on No. 2325 in vol. III of the I. M. Catalogue. My 
coin was obtained in the bazar at Dehli in 1903. 
H. Netson Wricur. 
106. A Cuauar TANKI oF AKBAR. 
Mughal Emperors. 
Akbar. 
AA. Weight 241 grs, Size *8. 
Mint Ahmadabad. 
Date 46 Tahi, — Month ? Aban. 
Obverse. Reverse. 
als as ! Jt ola 
EN0 Te shllosa! yey 
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