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[V.S.] 
girpur, Chatarkot, Champanir, Ranajin, Sikandarabad, Sialkot, 
Sitpir, Shikar ul Gah, ‘Alamgirnagar, Kalinjar, Manghir, 
Hapir. Of these I have included Budaon, Champanir, and 
O 
and Leggett Sale Catalogues, but though I have included new 
coins of known mints from these Catalogues, I have thought it 
unwise, in the absence of corroboration, to admit new mints on 
their sole authority. As regards the remaining; mints, it is. 
desirable that some should be submitted anew to a careful 
mints is now two hundred precisely. An addition of every 
separate reference in the lists gives us the following compara- 
tive table :— 
Mints. Vv AR AB 
Mr. Burn’s Lists 187 150 514 182 
New Lists 200 273 627 197 
So in eight years the number of references to gold coins has 
nearly doubled itself; there is a substantial increase in he 
record of known silver coins; but copper has been almost 
stationary. 
It is well known that many coins bearing the names of the 
Close of the later Mughal Emperors, were not struck by 
Mughal their authority. For instance, the Hon’ble 
Currency. East India Company struck millions of rupees 
in the name of Shah ‘Alam II. The rise of independent 
still remained of the old Mughal prestige, by striking coin in 
issues, These imitations can as a rule be distinguished by 
their style, and the local devices they bear. So rises an im- 
portant question in Mughal numismatics. It should be decided 
what are to be accepted as Mughal coins, as distinguished from 
the early issues of Independent States and of the various East 
or another in the near future. 
In his Introduction to Volume III of the new Indian 
Museum Catalogue, Mr. Nelson Wright has made a brief allu- 
sion to the matter. Based on his observations I have suggested 
that coins should be classed as belonging to imperial issues, if 
they conform to the following criteria :— 
