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



P.S.— Through the kindness of Mr. R.B. Whitehead, I.C.S., 

 I am able to add a reference to another coin on which the 

 title Sahib Qiran Than! is ascribed to the then regnant 

 Emperor. Shah Jahan II issued from the Tatta mint a coin 

 bearing a couplet which Mr. Whitehead reads as follows : 



M 



The Second " Lord of the Conjunction," Shah Jahan, 

 Struck coin in gold with security and tranquillity. 



G. P. T. 



87. Moghal Mint Towns — Firoznagar. 



In the list upon page 174 of his " Manual," Dr. O. Cod- 

 rington places a mark of interrogation against the name 

 of Firoznagar. I find that it is the new name by which 

 'Alamglr Aurangzeb disguised Raechor (Nizam's Territories), as 

 he did so many other places. In the M'asir-i-' Alamgiri 

 (Bibl. Ind.), p. 332, line 2 from foot, we have an entry headed 

 " Capture of Raechor," which states that on the 26th Safar 

 [1101 H. Dec. 29, 1689 N.S.], 33rd year, the Bakhshl-ul-mulk, 

 Ruhullah Khan, took the fort of Raechor, which received the 



of Firoznagar. In 1117 H. (1706), year 50, Chin Qilich 

 Khan, Bahadur, was appointed faujddr of Firoznagar vice 



name 



Khan 



William 



88. The Qandahar Rupee of Muhammad Shah. 



Dr. G. P. Taylor of Ahmadabad writes: — " Just a couple 

 of days after reading your description of a rupee, doubtfully 

 assigned by you l to the Qandahar mint, and dated the 30th 



Translator 



Qadr 



gave me a rupee — normal type — of the same Emperor, on 

 which the mint-name Qandahar is quite clearly written. Its 

 date is the 27th regnal year. It would thus appear that in the 

 27th and the 30th years of the reign of Muhammad Shah (A.H. 

 1157-1159; A J). 1744-1746), and presumably from the 27th 

 till the 30th year, coins were issuing from Qandahar in the 

 name of the Dehli Emperor. How is this fact to be explained, 

 if throughout that period the city was under Persian rule ? 

 There is another Qandahar. a taluq of Nander District in the 



1 Numismatic Supplement XIII, J.A.S.B., Vol. VI, No. 4, 1910, 



10. article 78. 



p. 240, article 78. 



