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are of the usual couplet type, are Native State coins in style, 
and are remarkable for the presence of an additional word after 
the mint name, which comes at the bottom of the coin. This 
has been read, and I think correctly, as ‘ hijrs.’ I notice that 
some at least of these coins exhibit both regnal and hijri dates 
on the mint side, in addition to the hijrt date on the obverse 
This fact affords a reasonable explanation for the presence of 
this unusual word, cp. some rupees of Shah Jahan. 
G ABAD.—Dr. G. P. Taylor has tentatively attribu- 
ted a rupee “ Farrukhsiyar to a new mint Gulshanabad—N 8. 
XIV, Paper This has been confirmed by the discovery of 
a second ae ia rupee of this mint which is in my own 
Cabinet. 
MAncuar.—I Mas the reading ee for Dr. White 
King’s Manghir— 
MvUHAMM rere ~ This mint name of Shah ‘Alam II has 
another word coming after it, which Mr. Burn has suggested 
may be siU—see Loe Introduction to ‘*The Minte of the Mughal 
Emperors.’’ It t be read with certainty on either of the 
two known pi 
Muiran.—Mr. Nelson Wright, C.S., possesses a unique 
rupee of Shah ‘Alam I, Multan mint, with the following 
legends :— f 
Obverse. Reverse. 
tegen Urzile 
xlaegls ple hen 
pera 
a om! 
ered ela she y 0 ple thee 
Sa Sn eS 
9S at ° O}.-. wlile 
This is quite a new type of the coins of Shah ‘Alam I. 
The couplet strikingly anticipates that adopted by Shah ‘ Alam 
II, and shows that both these emperors had the same /agab 
Wd Gs ala 
Manpisor.—The new sed of Mandisor is associated with 
an honorific epithet Daru-s-s 
Cea .—I have preferred he reading Mirtha for Mirath 
Mr. Nelson Wright’s Mint Note in the Introduction to 
LM. “Cat. Vol. III. 
