570 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1910. 



Aurangzeb. 



Of the rupees of Aurangzeb's reign four in the hoard 

 issued from mints hitherto unregistered, but on two of these 

 the mint-names still defy decipherment. One of the new 



mints is JinjI, ^^o^ (Fig. 1, Ob v. and Rev.). The obverse of 



this JinjI rupee displays the ordinary j±±* j& y^ legend, while 



the Hijrl year 1109 appear in the gaf of v^3 *-*U>l* The 

 reverse reads quite distinctly — 



<$ 



Eighty miles south-west of Madras, 8< the fortress of JinjI 

 occupies seven adjacent hills, on each of which stands a fort 

 bearing a distinct name", Elliot (Dowson), VII, 348. In his 



* * History of the Mahrattas ' ' Grant Duff tells at some length 

 the story of the siege of JinjI. It appears that in 1693 the 

 place was invested by the Mu gh al troops under the prince Kam 

 Bakhsh, but so languidly were operations conducted that not 

 till January, 1698, was the fortress carried by escalade. 

 The JinjI rupee must have issued from the mint but a few 

 months after this success, for the year of its issue, 1109 H., 

 closed on July 9th, 1698. 



Another new mint that now falls to be registered is 

 Mahmudbandar, j*h ,y^^ (Figs. 2 and 3, Rev. only). Two 

 duplicate rupees, each dated 51-1119, mutually help to reveal 

 the mint-name, one containing its earlier letters Mahroudban 

 . . . .and the other its later letters. . . .udbandar. Where this 

 Mahmudbandar was situated is unknown to me. 1 



Yet two other rupees, one dated 30-1098 and the other 

 4a;-1109, are of the ordinary type, but in each case I have failed 

 to read the mint recorded. In the hope that some coin-collec- 

 tor may be able to suggest the correct reading of these names, 

 the two Reverses are shown in Figs. 4 and 5. 



Of Aurangzeb f s Mailapur rupees one was described four- 

 teen years ago in King and Vost's article entitled "Novelties 

 in Mu gh al Coins.' ' A rupee from this rare mint is also in Mr. 

 Burn's cabinet. At Limbdl two specimens came to light, on 

 one of which the mint-name is entered as Mahllapur with an 



* h', )y$ ^f°, and on the other as simple Mailapur, without the 



1 My cabinet has long held an Aurangzeb rupee of the regnal year 

 4x that was struck at Islambandar. This M bandar" too baffles me. 



