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only that the name Akbar is added after Muham- 

 mad. Thev thus read 



IV. Than! Sahib Qiran, &kJ v^ l <* iy$. 



This variant form, in which tJ$ comes first instead of 



last, appears on two gold coins of Shah Jahan I, 

 both of them from the Shahjahanabad mint. One 

 of these is the 200-muhr piece, on which in the left 

 margin of the Reverse the Emperor is styled 



The other is the beautiful muhr, No. 568 of the 



1066, which 



Museum 



in the margin surrounding the circular area of the 

 Reverse bears the distich 



V. Thalith Sahib Qiran, &\j* ^~l* &)$* 



I have seen but a single coin exhibiting this epithet, 

 a Tatta rupee of Farrukh-siyar, dated 1 — 1125. It 

 is one of the treasures in the cabinet of my kind 

 friend Mr. Framji Jamaspji Thanawala. 



The ordinary legend on Farrukh-siyar' s coins pro- 

 claims the Emperor's title oly.jj^* »l£«>b * Badshah 

 of sea and land,' but on this Tatta rupee he is 



styled instead <±>\y v^L* ^Jb ' the Third Lord of 

 Conjunction.' The whole legend reads 



^\j-3 ^U> s-Jb 



Note. — In several of the Native States of Rajputana their 

 rulers have at one time or another issued coins more or less 

 closely resembling those of the contemporary Mughal Emperors. 

 Of these Native State coins the following exhibit the Emper- 

 or's name associated with the title Sahib Qiran thani: — 



Muhammad Shah rupees from the mint at Jaisalmer ; 

 Shah 'Alam II rupees from Bundi, Bfkaner, and Qaraull ; and 

 Akbar II rupees from Bundi, Bharatpur, Dholpur, and Sawai- 

 Jaipur. 



Geo. P. Taylor. 



Ahmadabad : 

 10f/i June. 1910. 



