426 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. {December, 1912. 
Royal Asiatic Society monographs, was also published in the 
year 1904, and contains much valuable information on Indian 
coins. 
In the year 1906 appeared the first volume of the new 
Catalogue of the Coins in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by 
Mr. Vincent A. Smith, I.C.S. (retired), on the pre-Muham- 
madan series, and this has been followed by the second and 
third volumes dealing respectively with the issues of the Pathan 
Sultans of Dehli and their contemporaries, and with those 
of the Mughal Emperors of India. Both have been written by 
Mr. H. Nelson Wright, I.C.S. This new Catalogue has been 
conceived in a liberal spirit, is a first-class work well illustrated 
with plates, and constitutes the last word on the subject. It 
will be very well equipped for his work. Another instrument of 
research is the recently founded Numismatic Society of India, 
which it is hoped will become a permanent and useful body 
urning from this brief review of modern progress to the 
subject of this paper, many new Mughal coins have been pub- 
lished in the Numismatic Supplements. One or two other 
works bear more particularly on Mughal mints. I may men- 
tion the comprehensive list of mints in the ‘Manual of Musal- 
man Numismatics.’ Dr. G. P. Taylor’s paper ‘ The Mints of 
_ it is evident that during the few years that have elapsed 
since the year 1904, the subject has increased considerably in 
magnitude, and the preparation of a new edition of Mr. Burn’s 
searched, in the order shown below, and fresh mints have been 
marked as they were found. The entry of a coin from any 
