544 Journal of the Asiaiic Society of Bengal. [December, 1912. 
‘‘gold coin was on one side the words ‘ Jahangir-shahi, 1027 
‘(1618),’ and on the reverse ‘Struck in Cambay in the 12th 
‘* year of the reign.” The legend for silver coins was on one 
‘*side ‘Sikka, Jahangir-shahi, 1027’; round it this hemistich , 
‘*< King Jahangir of the conquering ray struck this’; and on 
‘the reverse, ‘Coined at Cambay in the 12th year of the 
‘reign,’ with this second hemistich round it—‘ When after the 
‘*conquest of the Deccan he came to Gujarat from Manda.’ ’”! 
My friend Mr. N. D. Minocher-Homji, Professor of Per- 
sian at the Gujarat Arts Co.lege, Ahmadabad, has kindly 
looked up this passage in the Tazuk-i-Jahangiri, and the 
extract he has sent me certainly seems to record the very 
words of these tanka legends. They read as follows :— 
Gold Tanka. 
Obv. : bry Sine Ol Kile 
Rev. : re pr aie Cul S Gye 
Silver Tanka. 
Obv.: Area, Pery dhe als Ola 
Margin, 53ys pe Shea als 4 Bh ysl 
Rev.: Area, eS pp aie eu ls ye 
Margin, = S03) atyeS yy se oT WSs ei Stee 
tam not aware that a single specimen of these Jahangiri 
tankas of Cambay is contained at the present day in any 
numismatic cabinet. 
day. In all nine muhrs are in evidence, namely, two of Shah 
M (including two dupli- 
cates) of Anrangzéb. The following Table shows the reigns in 
: Tazuk-i-) ahangiri : Rogers a ‘Racca oe 7 
? eux ge, pp. 417, 418. 
to eal tides 7 ra Sete 354, 355, these newly struck tankas are said 
not two but ‘“ten and t ty ti < 
oe i$ mohur and rupee.’? wenty times heavier than the 
n H. 1050 the imperial troops were des , 
3 mosiatee iperial t : spatched to chastise the 
ane in Gujarat (Dowson’s Elliot, VII, 8), and possibly it 
eriod 0 cas, : 
was opened in Cambay. 's punitive expediton that the Mughal mint 
