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[N.8.] 



'h'»Jbtf ^s* 1 (Figs. 6 and 7, Rev. only). "Mylapore" lies 



on the left bank of the river Adyar, and forms with St. Thome 

 the southern suburb of the present town of Madras. 



Other rare Aurangzeb rupees were two from the mints at 

 Zafarpur and Daru-1-mulk Kabul. 



A'zam Shah. 



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It was an especial pleasure to light upon an Ahmadabad 

 A'zam Shah in mint condition. The only other specimen 

 known to me is in the British Museum, No. 850. 



Shah 'Alam I. 



Shah 4 Alam I was represented by rupees from the follow- 

 ing mints, all of them rare for that Emperor's reign : Ajmer, 

 Ahmadnagar, Akbarnagar, Purbandar, (Jhinapattan, Sholapur, 

 and both Daru-1- jihad and Farkhunda bunyad HaidarabacL Of 

 two Ajmer rupees, each of the first regnal year, one, probably 

 the earlier issued, bears the mint epithet Dam 1-Khair, but the 

 other Mustaqirru-1-Khilafat. This latter title is also present on 

 the rupee No. 866 in the British Museum, which coin, however, 

 differs from the Limbdl rupee in the arrangement both of the 

 Obverse and of the Reverse legends. Evidently then during 

 Shah \ Alam's first year three several dies were designed and 

 used in the Ajmer mint. 



Jakandar. 



The Jahandar rupees included a very early Arkat (1-1124)* 

 and a good specimen from the exceedingly rare mint Bahadur- 

 garh. This latter displays the oiy ^^li> bait, but a second 

 rupee, already L 

 mint, bears the 



** 



The situation of Bahadurgarh is not known for certain. 



on the Man river ", E.D. ? VII, 383, note 2. 



was 



1 Having these two coins in hand for reference, I have no hesitation 

 in affirming that the rauhr and rupee, Nos. 860, 874, in the British 

 Museum catalogue, there attributed to Sholapur (with 'short o'), really 

 issued from the Mailapur mint. On coins Sholapur is written fully 



(tcriptio plena) with a waw present in the first syllable, thus not j^j iLi 



* In his •• Old Coins in the Bahawalpur State Toshakhana," Mr. 

 Whitehead mentions a rupee struck at the Arkat mint still earlier by 

 two years. He says, M If my reading is correct, the Arkat coin of Shah 

 * Alam Bahadur I is new. It is dated 1 1 22 (jahls 4). M 



