232 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [June, 1912. 
Fig.1:! Obv. Be ys 
IrrA 
ile gla sl, 
P| "¢ 
wy? 
89 ay 
Upright scimitar 
Over Cw Of Cysla 
Weight : 176 grains. 
Diameter : *9 inch. 
The regnal year as entered on these coins evidently dates 
not from 1215 H., when Anandrav mounted the Baroda gadi 
but from 1221 H., the year of the ‘accession to the Imperial 
throne at Dehli of that Akbar whose name stands on the 
obverse. Colour was thus given to the fiction that these coins 
For the first six years of Anandrav’s reign ( 1215—1221) 
he was a contemporary of the Mughal Emperor Shah ‘Alam. 
I have no satisfactory specimen of a Baroda rupee struck during 
a A single copper specimen in the Lahor Maseum 
was described as follows by Mr. Rodgers :— we 
1 In g the coins figured on the Plates, I have not hesitated 
to supplement their legends, if fragmentary, from other specimens of 
identical types. 
aes. al in the East, the provincial rulers, without repudiating 
the technical supremacy of the Emperor, became independent.’’ S. J. 
Owen: ‘* Fall of the Moghul Empire,’ page vii. 
