Vol. VIII, No. 11.] Mint Towns of the Mughal Emperors. 435 
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So the couplet would be :— 
St a} aSvs cls) 
ply stool aad Loy, 
Mr. Nelson Wright, C.S., possessed a duplicate, but un- 
fortunately both have been lost The reading is fairly straight- 
forward except the name of the mint, which Mr. Nelson Wright 
has suggested may be Bandhi (or Bandhigarh) in Rewah, or 
the tract known formerly as Bhata. This fortress is mentioned 
several times in the ‘Ain-i-Akbari. It was Ps ie after a 
siege of over eight months in Akbar’s 42nd 
LDAT-I-SAFA.— Several rupees of aa: ‘II were known 
of a mint tentatively read as Baldat-i-Safa. There seems to be 
no doubt that this is one Baldat-Bikanir—see N.S. XI and 
N.S. XV, Papers 69 and 8 
BaLku.—In the Bleaatry Collection, recently mee oy 
the British Museum, there is a remarka ble gold coin of 
obverse. The date is 1057 A.H. This coin is so far a unique 
specimen bearing numismatic testimony to the Mughal con- 
quest of Balkh in A.D. 1647—see Manucci’s Storia Do Mogor, 
Vol. I, p. 185, and Elphinstone, stig! X, Chap. 
Parran. —_Pattan is a town in the present Baroda State, 
and was the capital of Gujarat Sais about A.D. 750 till the 
founding | of Ahmadabad in A.D. 1411—see ‘ Imperial Gazetteer 
of India,’ Vol. XX, pp. 24, 25. In Akbar’stime the place was 
known as Anhalwara Pattan, or Nahrwala ag Pattan is 
given in the ‘Ain-i-Akbari as a copper mint of Akbar; quite 
recently it has been discovered that Akbar’ s coins struck at 
attan exist in all three metals. Colonel Vost in N.S. XI 
published rupees of the Ahmadabad ayPe struck at Nahrwala 
Pattan in A.H. 984. One or two dams also of A.H. 984, are 
known of Pattan with its epithet of Shahr; they are exactly 
similar in style to the Ahmadabad copper coins of the same 
ha Lastly there can be little doubt that gold muhar PI. IIT, 
of the British Museum Catalogue of Mughal Coins, is of 
Shake Pattan mint, and not of Sahrind as previously read. 
The new attribution is supported by the fact that this muhar 
is dated 984, and is of the Ahmadabad 2 
DewaL Banpark.—A ru of Akbar ot Dewal mint was 
first published in the ae ‘Some Novelties in Mughal Coins’ 
—Num. Chron., 1896. But fuller specimens show that the 
name of the mint town is Dewal Bandar. This was a port on 
the coast of Sind. 
ZAINU-L-BILAD.—Zainu-l-bilad is the name of a mint found 
on silver coins of Muhammad Shah, but we do not know as yet 
