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



(a) From the very first year of his reign Shah Jahan I 



introduced this epithet on his coins, and it is to 

 be seen on nearly all the muhrs, rupees, and 

 nithars that were issued prior to his death. The 

 area of the Reverse of the famous 200-muhr piece 

 exhibits the legend which, with variations as to the 

 arrangement of its constituent words, continued 

 throughout this Emperor's reign to be the normal 

 legend for his coins in gold and silver. 



^li yJjS w»o>U> t***^* ^jjoJi v-^i 



^ *^ jt* * l 



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(&) The two rupees of Shah Shuja c , Nos. 690 and 691 in 



the British Museum Catalogue, very probably bear 

 in their margin the epithet Sahib Qiran thani. The 



Catalogue itself gives the words ^u ^y as the 



reading of the right margin of the Reverse of 

 No. 690; and in Num. Supp. VI, pp. 265, 266, 

 Mr. Burn has shown reason for rejecting, as to 

 No. 691, the extremely doubtful rendering " Jalun- 

 abad," which Mr. Lane-Poole had ventured to 

 suggest, and for accepting in its stead the reading 

 Sahib Qiran thani. 



(c) On the coins of Muhammad Shah stood the severely 



simple legend 



&Li &*SL>Q ^\'^ fcti^lj <JjU;C &£*» 



but it would seem that some two years after this 

 Emperor's accession the words <yti crty v-^ 1 ** were 

 inserted after ^U* on the coins, both gold and 

 silver, that issued from the Shahjahanabad mint, a 

 change which was maintained till the close of the 

 reign. The legend as thus altered reads 



(d) Akbar IPs Shahjahanabad muhrs and rupees bear a 



legend identical with the one last recorded, save 



"cependant mentionner ce fait que, en 1896, il a ete pr6sent6 au cabi- 

 " net de France (qui n'en a pas fait I'acquisition) un rubis rapportd du 

 4 'Turkestan, et sur lcquel 6tait gravSe une inscription que j'ai cru 

 "pouvoir lire de la maniere suivante: Djehdn Oir shdh Akbar shdh 

 1 sdhib-qirdn tsdni, 1019, ee qui prouverait, si la pierre est authen- 

 tique, que ce souverain aurait pris, avant son fils Shah Djehan, 1- 

 • titre de * deuxieme maitre de la conjonction.' " 



Les Symboles astrologiques sur les monnaies de la Perse (Gazette 

 beige de Numismatique, Bruxelles, 1901). 



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