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on which are as follows : 



inscriptions 



Obverse. Reverse. 



jJ\ *«sm ^j.h y Lj^j, ^ 



^oJt JiU 





word 



but possibly jsU.iL formed part of the legend. Over the last 



Muh 



of Ornament found on Mughal Coins— Vol. Ill of the Catalogue 

 of the Coins in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. The first and 

 third lines of the reverse are cut, but there is sufficient to make 

 my reading almost certain. The epithet 'Abu-1-fath ' is ex hi- 



as 



use on coins in connection with Akbar's name. It invariably 



formed the reverse inscription on the smaller copper coins of the 



Jaunpur kings, and the Indian Museum possesses one of these 



of as late a date as A.H. 887— Catalogue of the Coins in the 



Indian Museum, Calcutta, Vol. II, Jaunpur, No. 175. 



Possibly the use of the epithet on the present coin is a 

 survival. 



Since writing the above I have seen Col. Vost's article < On 

 some rare Muhammadan Coins ' published in the A.S.B, Journal 

 for 1896. I find that this dam was described by him — see 

 Plate II, No 7 — but he read it as being a coin of Muhammad 

 Shah, Suri. The only word legible on the obverse of that 



Muhammad 



Ajmer. 



The Indian Museum possesses two types of dams struck at 

 Ajmer mint. On one type Ajmer is probably styled 'Daru-1 

 Mansur' and the second is the common variety presenting the 

 obverse inscription ( Zarb Ajmer sikka fuliis '- Indian Museum 

 Catalogue, Vol III, Nos. 358 and 359. Amongst a large num- 

 ber of Akbar's copper coins struck at Ajmer and Chit or mints, I 

 came across two apparently new varieties of Ajmer dam. The 

 inscriptions on the first are : — 



Obverse. Reverse. 



f 



*> 



( A^UJf p ) ^ 



& 





