436 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [December, 1912. 
what town or place was meant. Its close resemblance to the 
honorific epithet Zinatu-l-bilad adopted by Rafi‘u-d-darjat for 
Ahmadabad, would point to this city. The coins are usually 
of regnal years four, five and six. A half rupee of Muhammad 
Shah struck at Ahmadabad in regnal year one is known, an 
rupees of year eight and later regnal years are fairly common, 
but no Ahmadabad silver coins have yet been found struck in 
the regnal years covered by the Zainu-l-bilad series. 
Strat.—There is a copper coin of Sirat mint in the 
Cabinet of Dr. G. P. Taylor, Ahmadabad, which can be attri- 
buted with certainty to Shah Jahan II. Its dates are 1131 
A.H., 1 R., and the inscriptions are as follows :— 

Obverse. Reverse. 
Stoo" rie w sy? 
FaTHaBap.—The full name of Fathabad mint is Fathabad 
Dharir (Dharwar)—see N.S. II, and N.S. XIIL 
ATHPUR.—In his paper ‘‘ Notes on the Zodiacal Rupees 
and Mohars of Jehanghir Shah’’ published in the J.A.S.B. for 
1878, the Hon’ble James Gibbs, C.S.I., mentions a mohur and 
a rupee of Fathpir mint. They both exhibit the sign of Aries, 
and bear the same date 1030 A.H. The author does not give 
any further details. The coins belonged to Colonel Guthrie, 
and are now presumably at Berlin. 
Mr. C. J. Rodgers described another zodiacal rupee of 
Fathpir mint—see paper ‘ Couplets or Baits on the Coins of 
Shah Niru-d-din Jahangir,’ J.A.S.B., 1888. The zodiacal sign 
apricornus, underneath which was crtla 16 aiw, The 
couplet on the obverse side was— 
‘Coin of gold became bright at Fathpir. 
anes oo es of the name of Jahangir Shah, son of 
Akbar.’ 
~in-hie-pessessior, but I do not know where it is now ; it is not 
in the British Museum. 
_ A\ALPI, Kora, ann Koncu.—Rupees bearing the name of 
Shah ‘Alam If are found in the neighbourhood of Jhansi, of 
mints Kalpi, Kora, Kinch, and of one or two other mints as 
yet unread. They bear a strong family likeness to each other, 
